Word: affront
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Borsen Zeitung: "An affront to German honor. . . . The mountain has labored and brought forth a ridiculous mouse...
France. Foreign Minister Briand, appointed to consider the debt question with Finance Minister Caillaux, in the French Senate rose and declared: "I cannot think that so great, generous-hearted and loyal a country ever would do us the affront to believe we seek to escape payment of our debts. . . ." In response to the question, he declared that "serious conversations" had been begun with the U. S. to that...
...reverberation of the nautch (dancing) girl affair: A nautch girl, member of the Maharaja of Indore's harem, escaped from Indore, a sovereign Hindu state, following the murder of her baby, and sought the protection of a wealthy Parsi merchant of Bombay. This was a supreme affront to the Maharaja's "izzet" (caste honor). He held out every inducement to the girl to return, but she preferred her merchant and counted on the additional protection of British police authorities. But, one evening, while she was riding in an automobile with the Parsi, they were attacked by some...
...grandiloquently that only King Alphonso or Primo de Rivera may match rapiers with him. What could be more audacious than a novelist laying aside a vitriolic pen to challenge a crowned head of Europe? It is not likely that the pride of a Hapsburg-Bourbon will brook such an affront. Yet, even in this case, Ibanez has the long odds. He has looked over the King's record as a duelist and finds it poor. Besides, and the truth of this charge particularly infuriates the royalists, the King's manner of living in the last few years could not possibly...