Word: offending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said bewildered Sculptor Vittor: "Napoleon's Josephine posed for Canova without a bathing suit. After all Miss Leaver didn't pose in the nude and there's nothing to offend her. . . . My brother Anthony and I had every measurement. We had photographs of her. We had a chart...
...picked up the Congressional manual and declared: "I shall read the Constitution of the United States. Will I offend anyone if I do that? . . . All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in the Congress of the United States. . . . Are they in Congress today? Are the laws regulating the planting of crops vested in Congress? No!" So Long went on through the Constitution section by section, sentence by sentence, phrase by phrase. An hour later, looking up from the nearly empty floor, he beamed...
After crossing the land of the Nham-biquaras, whose complete nudity failed to offend the hard-bitten colonel, Roosevelt, Rondon, the others and a troop of native porters and boatmen found the headwaters of the Rio da Dúvida and started down it in rough dugout canoes. The river, winding northward through precipitous canyons toward the Equator, almost beat them. There were grueling portages around roaring rapids. Fever and bloodsucking insects sapped their strength. Once, when a whirlpool caught a canoe, a porter was drowned and Kermit nearly perished. They eked out their provisions by eating monkeys, Brazil nuts...
...intelligence of a body of man may be, they must inevitably favor, to a greater student, those younger men place methods and whose friends agree with theirs. The obvious result is that the instructor ambitious for promotion--and which are not so?--must be continuously watchful not to offend the sensibilities of his superiors. Nothing could be less conducive to initiative, originality, and fresh ideas. Of perhaps greater importance even is the unlikelihood of bringing in men from the outside who are different and hence stimulating. A University to keep alive must grow and to grow must be constantly enlivened...
That children would beg on the streets for money to buy tickets; that undesirables would come from neighboring towns; that gaudy signs and lights would offend the eye; that young fry might be demoralized; that, above ail, property values might be hurt-these were the arguments with which, for 15 years, selectmen of the snobbish Boston suburb of Winchester have clowned each & every proposal to allow cinemas to be exhibited in their town...