Word: affronts
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Since this affront to the King, his Crown and Dignity had been indeed committed, Colonial Secretary MacDonald could only stammer, "The position in regard to His Majesty's prerogative does not hold today as it did in the fairly recent past...
...there are times when the luminous patios of the Agua Caliente Hotel, which are used for all exteriors, give the picture the air of an animated resort poster, this impression is corrected by an imperfectly subdued tendency to affront Mexico by portraying it as a country whose people understand English only when they are bribed and whose music exists solely to goad listeners into buying silence. In Caliente is dull only in its more expensive moments. Even Busby Berkeley could not do much with Mexican dance effects that has not already been done and probably the most devastating thing...
...However, the swastika wreath is not an insult to the Harvard Chapel alone, it is a brazen and sneering affront to the entire University, for the wreath is an emblem of a regime which has terrorized the students and professors of Germany, and which has reduced the splendid German national culture to an incoherent barbarism. That the friends and representatives of the Hitler government should dare to lay this swastika wreath in the name of peace, at the precise moment when Hitler, throwing aside all pretense, is arming his enslaved nation to the teeth, is a glaring example...
Ontario papers have been roasting "Mitch" for his recent affront to King George in refusing to attend the viceregal banquet of Lieutenant Governor Dr. Herbert Bruce (TIME, Feb. 11). At the Legislature's opening last week "Mitch" definitely welshed. He had threatened to deny George V's representative the royal salute. It crashed and thundered as Royal Canadian Dragoons saluted in Dr. Bruce by a legal fiction "the person of the King." Admirers of "Mitch" had expected him to bar the Lieutenant Governor from Ontario's Throne. Instead dignified old Dr. Bruce, with radiant young Mrs. Bruce...
...this letter that served as the "cease firing" signal to the fortnight's affray. Obviously the President could not afford to fall out irrevocably with organized labor. Obviously organized labor neither dared nor desired to affront the man in the White House. So pious "Bill" Green summoned the reporters, told them: "Roosevelt is our hope and our strength. We want to go over to the White House and discuss all Labor problems and show our faith...