Word: affrontive
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...Manhattan. The marriage lasted 7 hr. 45 min. At week's end Mrs. Manville No. 7, fortified with a book about the Medici, took a train to Reno, and New York State Senator Louis B. Heller said he would sponsor a bill to outlaw matrimonial Houdinis who "affront the majesty and dignity of the state...
...Affront." To the juicy job of Collector of Internal Revenue in Missouri he named hulking, blue-jowled Robert E. Hannegan, formerly assistant boss of as slick a political machine as St. Louis ever saw, until indignant St. Louis voters turned it out a year ago. St. Louis groaned; it had trounced the machine for giving it some of the worst circuit judges in history, for conniving in the State Democratic organization's attempt to steal the Governorship (TIME, March 23); it wanted no more of Hannegan & Co. Snapped the Post-Dispatch: "The President's action is an affront...
...Philadelphia) range all through the innumberable islands, in launches and little outrigger canoes. They still encounter an occasional intimation of cannibalism. When one nun visited a remote mountain village in 1937, the chief took a bite out of her arm to sample her flesh but she received no other affront...
...unfortunate that just before his death an American magazine, TIME, printed an article about the President that Chileans considered an affront. . . . We trust that the people of Chile will accept Roosevelt's apology for the article. . . ."-Philadelphia Record...
...became Secretary of the Navy. An ardent Dry, he prohibited liquor on board Navy ships. He outraged officers by shaking hands with seamen. He tried to make sailors wear pajamas. In his black string tie and his flat-brimmed, North Carolina planter's hat, he was a walking affront to the ramrod dignity of the admirals...