Word: affrontive
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...Women's Chamber of Commerce called on the mayor for repeal of the special tax from which the museum derived $239,000 last year. The city director of public welfare proposed diversion of the tax to hospitals. Pickets sweltered at City Hall complaining that the cat was an affront to Labor. Six St. Louis members of the American Artists' Congress chimed in with a demand that the museum buy "indigenous" art. "It is hard for many of us," said they, "to see the lasting value to a 20th-Century community in the purchase of an Egyptian...
...Twentieth Century-Fox) demonstrates in brisk, British-cut, melodramatic fashion: 1) that the sun never sets on Producer Darryl F. Zanuck (Clive of India, The House of Rothschild, Lloyd's of London), and 2) that Producer Zanuck can excuse the world munitions ring for any atrocity except an affront to British family honor...
...Just before the first act someone sings 'Fair Harvard' offstage, which puts everybody in a properly sentimental mood," Mr. Watts observed nastily. The Student smiled indulgently; so steeped in indifference was he that he passed lightly over this affront to his Alma Mater...
...reputed $750,000 for being both undignified and vulgar." The word vulgar constitutes a grave injury to Miss Fields, her friends and public in England, where she is greatly beloved as your article states. I am a great admirer of TIME and know that it does not intend an affront but in England the epithet used will have a different implication and will have an injurious result. I have received a protest from Miss Field's manager in England and as the producer of her pictures I appeal to your sense of fairness to right the harm done...
...trembles as it records the treason of Administration demagogues. One shudders to think what will come next from the New Dealers whose despotic path has led them to degrade the Father of His country. No palliative, not even the soothing words of a Clay, can smooth over such an affront to national patriotism. In no time at all the Mayflower Society, D.A.R., and W.C.T.U. will be at Mr. Farley's Democratic throat...