Word: affront
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unknown, they are particularly rare. Britishers have had good cause to admire and look up to the present Royal House, not only as a great democratic and patriotic family, but as the living symbol that binds the world-flung empire so securely. Serious minded people have read an affront to the Royal Family and the empire into the cartoons of Max. It is undeniable that the artist stamps himself a plain boor for choosing such subjects, but, on the other hand, it is equally undeniable that Beerbohm intended no slight. He says in a letter to the Secretary...
...exile of the Leviathan to Hoboken as result of a petty affront to the Mayor of New York...