Word: offends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Desire of the Chamberlain government not to offend Mussolini's sensibilities" caused the recent banning of a review of his book, "Mussolini in the making," in London, Gaudens Megaro, tutor in History, charged in an interview yesterday...
Paris. "France looks to us to come to her aid if attacked-therefore she cannot offend us!" wailed Lloyd George in his only open statement of the week. "His Majesty's Government are taking a mean advantage of her predicament in preventing her from doing for her friends in the Democracy of Spain what Mussolini and Hitler are doing so lavishly for her enemies...
...Beaton explained ". . . Silly as it may sound, I had not been aware that I was writing words. ... I liked the sound of 'Kike' . . . but I had no idea that it was confined to a definite racial group, and I certainly had no conception of its explosiveness. ... To offend I had not the slightest intention. ... I am not 'anti-Semite!' Some of my very best friends are Jews. ... I have suffered and am still suffering profoundly by the consciousness of having caused so much trouble and annoyance to Conde Nast, who was not merely my employer...
...White, our Mayor, once remarked that only "cheapskates" come to Atlantic City. Our Mayor is entirely too much of a gentleman to refer to any convention as a group of "cheapskates," and most certainly no person in this city in his right mind would so deliberately offend any organization...
...peers, played football and baseball, fell in love and out again. But inwardly he was not so conformist; at 15 he confided to his journal: "My inward thoughts on things now differ so greatly from the thoughts of people about me that if I should speak out I should offend or horrify them. I love these people, and I want to learn from them, so I keep my peace, which is, I think, good manners. . . . This would be a strange and impossible world if it were inhabited by truth-telling men, men who always spoke out just what...