Word: offending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice of one subscriber raised in protest will do very little good. But at least it will be a satisfaction to me to say to you that the covers you put out on your magazine are not only disgusting but nauseating. These pictures are so distasteful that they must offend the finer sensibilities of hundreds of your readers. Is it good advertising, may I ask, to put out a magazine that one is ashamed to have uncovered on one's table? I for one always keep TIME well hidden. This cover I return to you [March 31, Saint Gandhi...
...minded wife, did what they could to help their parson: his housekeeper, Mrs. Taste, his sexton, Truggin, Farmer Spenke, Publican Toole. Everybody in the village was a character, shrewd in his own right, simple in his own way. Unlike most books ostensibly about parsons, Kindness in a Corner should offend no parsons...
...Chautemps, faced the Chamber of Deputies last week with a short and simple declaration of policy, promising if sustained to hold an unchanged course at the London Naval Parley and, although M. Chautemps is a Radical-Socialist of the Left, proposing no internal measure which could possibly offend the Right, to which the Cabinet looked feverishly for the dozen votes or so which would mean everything...