Word: affrontive
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...hands for about one hour and Lord knows how I can have waited that long to write you what is in my mind and in my heart. Your front page picture [German Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Paul Joseph Goebbels] and the caption under it is an affront to to not only every Jew in the world but to every individual who loves decency and respects his fellow man. Does TIME find it necessary to go down into the gutters and slime of the world to embellish its covers? Is there not enough intolerance and racial hatred in this world...
...Kemal began to stare at the Egyptian Minister's red fez. Upon Kemal the effect was that of a red rag on a bull. He ripped out something in Turkish and the Egyptian Minister, flushing as red as his fez, took it off, later sent details of the affront to fat King Fuad...
Many North American visitors to the European continent have been either amused or insulted at the signs in French and Italian shop windows: "English spoken: American understood." Shall we deliberately abandon all just reason for resentment at this foreign affront...
...helpless product of exaggerated chivalry and Victorian prudishness, may never in real life have been such a pathetic monster as Authoress Glasgow's heroine, but she was at least recognizably similar. This sad story of how a fading Virginia belle tried to taper off into normal old age may affront the shades of Southern colonels but should arouse only wondering pity from a differently complicated generation...
...stood a buxom Holstein cow. This whimsy was captioned "Her Hero." Motorists grinned. Advertising men, seeing in it a burlesque of sex-appealing tobacco advertisements, thought it smart. But to the churchwomen of Willow Glen, a suburb of San Jose, Calif., it was the epitome of bad taste, an affront to California womanhood. Last week they went before their town council, demanded that the objectionable picture, which greeted Willow Glen's children on their way to school, be removed. The Council summoned for the defense Educational Director Edward Lloyd Lomax of Foster & Kleiser Billboard Advertising Corp. Director Lomax...