Word: offends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have an expression of the views of your paper on this whole subject. It seems to me incredible that in this 20th Century a publication of wide circulation such as yours should have anti-Semitic tendencies, which I believe is contrary to the spirit of Americanism and will offend the sense of propriety of non-Jews as well as Jews...
...Matter calculated to weaken the power of the Reich at home or abroad, the community will of the German people, its military spirit or its culture and economy, or that tends to offend religious sentiments...
...Attribute your telegram to inexperience or ignorance or both. Therefore I hope the committee will not proceed against you for contempt. But do not offend again...
Cracked back Mrs. Hammond: "We regret, Senator, that we must offend again. We are inexperienced in the field of practical politics but we are not ignorant of the inactivity of your committee. . . . Your committee has kept your investigator in Washington, permitting him to do nothing ... has frittered away its scant appropriation . . . has attempted to discredit the record by representing that your authority is limited under the resolution. That resolution is immeasurably broader than the resolution which made a record that threw Vare and Lorimer out of the Senate. . . . Speaking of contempt, Senator, why do you refuse to proceed against Long...
...Springs, Ark., Mrs. Mary Cronin, 34, sinned, brooded. It was her eyes which had led her to sin and the Bible said, "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out."* When a doctor got to her, Mary Cronin, armed with a safety pin, had dug out her right eye, most of her left...