Word: affront
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...upright youth spurning two coiled mermaids who represented Deceit and Disillusion. The unveiling in 1922 caused an unavailing delirium of protests from women's organizations and others which found, in the sex of Disillusion and Deceit and in their proximity to the youth's feet, an affront to womanhood. Glad of an opportunity to have fun, Manhattan newspapers exulted in lavish, impartial ridicule, made the incident one of Manhattan's most famed art squabbles. As late as 1932 Merchant Nathan Straus Jr. was writing to onetime Mayor James John Walker, asking the statue's removal...
...days earlier the House had defied the threat of a veto in passing the greenback bonus bill. That, however, was only a political gesture for home consumption since no one expected the bonus bill to become law. Last week in what was not a gesture but a deliberate affront to the White House, the House voted 247 to 169 against a rule which, in effect, would have rejected the Senate's amendments. This step taken, the House cast regard for the Administration to the winds and proceeded to make the bill over to suit itself-a thing...
...also be made venomous when used synonymously as the photos referred to. I trust that you will in the future make all descriptions of Jews by their nationalities and when necessary describe members of my faith as "Hebrew" rather than "Jew." Your over-conscientiousness is not taken as an affront, but rather your desire to please your readers...
...persecutions of fellow Jews. Chancellor Hitler's pogroms are conducted not on religious grounds but on racial grounds (as a mask for underlying economic reasons). In labeling Lawyer Untermyer "Jew" in contrast to "German" for Ambassador Luther, TIME was strictly, significantly accurate. TIME did not thereby intend affront to Jewish sensibilities or express sympathy with the Nazi cause...
...demonstration as an opportunity to disseminate peace propaganda without any reference to its consequences, either to the Liberal Club or to Harvard. The Liberal Club itself is a minority organization, and this bloc was a minority within a minority, but it would have been awkward to explain a deliberate affront to West Point away on these terms...