Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Added to the indignity of insufficient credit, the American minister abroad sees hurled at him the insult of party domination and political interference. It has come about that nearly every overturn at Washington must be followed by the recall or resignation of the greater part of our Ambassadors. Statistics have been compiled showing that, with one exception, none of the diplomatic representatives from this country to important posts in Europe at the outbreak of the war had had the slightest diplomatic experience previous to their appointments. In sharp contrast to this state of affairs, the consuls and ministers from Great...
...letters demanding his suppression; from veiled editorials suggesting that he is "not the sort of man"; from abusing him indiscriminately as a "subtle propagandist" and a "credulous sentimentalist;" and from the argumentum ad hominem generally. Apart from any question of courtesy or dignity, this sort of thing is an insult to the intelligence of the University. If a man is lying to call him a liar is a waste of time which might better be devoted to establishing the truth; if he is telling the truth, it is a waste of energy. SYDNEY FAIRBANKS...
...seem to certain Freshmen that insult has been added to injury. At a time when few occupants of the Charles River Palaces have recovered their equanimity, they are informed that Dean Brown of Yale will speak to them in Smith Halls Common Room. Some may feel that in a few weeks they might have so quashed their community feeling that they could have received this man graciously--even joyously. It has been asked in Gore Hall whether the Dean will discuss football in his address...
...bill, members of those religious sects which forbid participation in war, as well as clergymen and students at theological colleges, will be excused from service. That provision is practically sound, for if a man, having weighed well his decision, would honestly and actually prefer to be exposed to the insults, the personal and material injury of an insolent foreign foe, rather than defend in war his person and his property against insult and injury, then he should not be forced to take up arms in defence of that which he so little regards. Other men, who prize more highly honor...
...with its obsolete arms and want of training, proved to be inefficient and inferior to its opponents in her recent wars is a fact, but to attribute this without any ground to the reason that the Chinese are "cowardly" can not but be construed as an act of wanton insult of national character. If the Chinese are given the best of equipment and training, as the people are in this country, the question whether they are cowardly can then be decided on the battlefield in a future war. If China should have awakened fifty years earlier, and succeeded in establishing...