Word: insult
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...into two groups, Socialists (pacifists) who not having seen the film were sure that All Quiet was the finest, most graphic war film ever produced; Nationalists and National Socialists (Fascists) who not having seen the film were equally sure that it was a slander on German courage and an insult to Germany's War dead. The Berlin premiere fortnight ago changed few opinions, but Herr Hitler's faithful Nazis took drastic means of expressing their disapproval. Not content with shouting denunciations at the screen, rioting in front of the theatre, they threw stink bombs over the balcony rail, loosed hopfrogs...
...Vancouver's most useful institution") was publishing serially The Strange Death of President Harding by onetime Federal Sleuth Gaston B. Means (TIME, March 31). The U. S. Consul General was besieged with outraged demands for formal action. One Californian wired to Senator Hiram Johnson urging "proper protest against . . . insult." Nothing happened. The Strange Death of President Harding was widely circulated and reported in the U. S. last spring. But the U. S. press, while feeling obliged to report the book's horrid insinuation that Mrs. Harding did away with her husband, at the same time took pains...
...professional man or an artist. Such a feeling is very English and almost impossible to explain to a foreigner, but Whistler had absorbed it ... completely. ... A thousand guineas for his work might have sent him away not too dissatisfied, but a thousand pounds seemed to him a deliberate insult...
Under the new conditions incidental to the House Plan the last excuse for the maintenance of such restrictions disappears. Their further retention on any grounds other than pure mid-Victorian conservatism, must imply a belief on the part of the authorities which is an insult to the character of the student body. Sincerely yours. Emile B. Smullyan...
...theatrical season 87% of the legitimate productions and 69% of the musical attractions failed. No indication of a lowering of this mortality rate appeared last week. The following presentations have opened and closed since Oct. 1: Luana, Symphony in Two Flats, Nina Rosa, With Privileges, The Rhapsody, Insult, The Cinderelative, A Farewell to Arms, Nine Till Six, Mr. Gilhooley, Roadside, Stepsisters of War, Marigold, Blind Mice, London Calling...