Word: affronts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deliberate Affront. Powerful forces joined to change the mind of the earnest, conscientious young woman of 25, forced to choose between love and duty. In Anthony Eden's Cabinet, in the Established Church, even in the palace itself, persons opposed to the marriage were bending every effort to make the Princess aware of the seriousness of the step she proposed to take. Each day that passed threw more pressure against Margaret's apparent determination to renounce her royal rights and marry Peter Townsend...
...Anglican clergymen revealed that 85 would refuse to officiate at the proposed marriage, 13 would be willing to marry the pair, two were undecided. One outspoken churchman, Canon Charles Kirkland of Canterbury, told an audience of mothers last week that the Princess "contemplates doing something which is deliberately an affront both to religion and the church." Some other Anglican churchmen were quick to condemn these words as "cruel and unjust...
...listen to these men. Go away from them!" But the braceros paid little attention. "This so-called crusade is an insult to the Catholic Church," he said later. "These Baptists consider the men pagans and even tell them they are. It's not so. It's an affront to come in and confuse these simple, uneducated people like that...
...attack . . . we want it clearly understood that we don't listen to the bum." Regretted the Advertiser: if only Godfrey had visited the city when the mercury topped 100°, Montgomerians could be "doubly sure that he won't be back." Quick to take umbrage at this affront was Alabama's mountainous (6 ft. 8 in., 248 Ibs.) Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, who hates the Advertiser ("them lying newspapers") as much as it deplores him, reads no Alabama daily newspaper at all. To Godfrey from Kissin' Jim went a sympathetic letter of apology...
...Howard Hughes's Son of Sinbad, approved by the Hollywood Production Code but condemned by the Legion of Decency (even after re-editing) as "a serious affront to Christian and traditional standards of morality and decency," is already booked for several hundred theaters. Like Hughes's controversial French Line, it seems headed for a dual treatment: boycotting in heavily Catholic areas, nationwide sexsational advertising to convince the public that Sinbad is really a euphemism for Singood...