Word: affrontive
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...suit the Japanese. What Sir Robert said on his own hook only made them angrier. There was nothing extraordinary, he pointed out, about the boarding. In World War I, Allied cruisers boarded 64 neutral vessels and took off 3,500 subjects of the Central Powers. Britain certainly intended no affront to the Japanese in this case, he said - no greater affront, in any event, than the Japanese had intended in boarding over 191 British ships in China seas since...
...poses of spiritualization? I think that Christianity will bitterly resent the gratuitous inference. . . . Dr. Witt pursues his blundering and ill-considered way by gratuitously unitarianizing most of Christendom [i.e., by remarking that Christians no longer believe Jesus divine]. As a Jew, I unqualifiedly condemn Rabbi Witt for this affront. . . . The truly devout Christian of whatever denomination has far more respect for the Jew who, conscientious to his own religious loyalties, does not observe Christmas, than for the Witt type of Jew who tries to crawl into Christmas observance, salving what remains of his Jewish conscience by endeavoring to water down...
...short. Two Negro delegates-one of them Florida Educator Mary McLeod Bethune-started for the platform to demand an explanation. Blushing, Dr. Estes seized a microphone, said: "Coming from the Deep South as I do, perhaps I am prone to use such words without realizing that they may give affront. I will say to the Conference: when there is a marriage and the first misunderstanding arises, what happens? We make up, of course. I say now, let's make...
...Laborite motion of censure brought against Mr. Chamberlain declared "that in the opinion of this House, the decision of His Majesty's Government to grant unconditional recognition to the Spanish Insurgent forces, dependent upon foreign intervention, constitutes a deliberate affront to the legitimate Government of a friendly power, is a gross breach of international traditions and marks a further stage in a policy which is steadily destroying in all the democratic countries confidence in the good faith of Britain...
...TIME said: "First-class entertainment, it will neither corrupt the morals of minors nor affront the intelligence of their seniors. But unfortunately, Gunga Din ... a symbol of Hollywood's current trend ... is as deplorable as it is enlightening ... a $2,000,000 rehash...