Word: affronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commission submitted a minority report, declared that 2,000 or even more mercenaries from abroad could not keep order during the plebiscite. In the Saar Landesrat, a parliament without powers, deputies of the so-called German Front rose in a body last week and marched out as a direct affront to President Knox. They accused him of permitting French papers in the Saar "to defame and vilify the late President von Hindenburg." Not without foundation, this charge referred to an item in the SaarbrÜcken Volksstimme which closed its report of the Feldmarschall's burial thus: "We will now dismiss...
...Mexico's Street Cleaning Department and nephew of onetime Mexican President Venustiano Carranza. Last month Severo Moreno sassed Stewardess Dolores Uranga, not for the first time. Secretary Carranza sentenced him to an eight-day suspension without pay, called a policeman to help enforce the sentence. Intolerable was that affront to the polysyllabic dignity of the Union de Obreros y Empleados de las YMCA, which consists of 77 cooks, waiters, janitors, clerks. It struck...
...Mary Pickford is flesh of our flesh and of good red blood, not blue. Torontonians cannot tolerate an affront to her, particularly when it comes from an alien to the land of the Maple...
...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...