Word: affronts
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...associations of stock and wheat growers, sympathy for this price-fixing measure is neither intense nor intelligent, while the Governor's call to arms is mere political chicanery. But the public confidence in the present method of choice of candidates is already so shaky, that this putative affront by over-alled bureaucracy may happily topple it. With an improved radio system relaying to a passive citizenry every shout of the peasant revolt outside the smoke filled hotel room where the nocturnal setters-up of presidents are bartering votes, it is possible that a disgusted populace may at last move...
...Czechoslovakia would profit hugely by a repeal of the U. S. Eighteenth Amendment, Zealot Maresch has long enjoyed complete toleration and some quiet encouragement by the shrewd burghers of Prague. Last week however public sentiment turned bitterly against him overnight, when he printed what was construed as an affront to the political idol of Czechoslovaks, famed Foreign Minister Eduard Benes. As everyone knows, Dr. Benes was the chief lieutenant of President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk in their heroic and successful struggle to create the Czechoslovak State during the World...
Literal minded Britons were scandalized, last week, at what they took to be an affront offered by George Bernard Shaw to his good & faithful wife, the onetime Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend...
Such is the case of M. Pierre Weber, who has taken as personal affront the remark of M. Rostand, fils, that his play was vile and did not contain a single amusing word. Whether or not the young author's anger was aroused by the first or the second of the allegations is beside the point. In any event, his friends sought out the critic with a challenge. After deliberating during the week-end, M. Rostand made it known that he would not be one to set a precedent of killing playrights since such "recourse to arms was inadmissible...
...Slacker Bergdoll on p. 8 and an item concerning him in the same columns as mention such courageous men as Byrd, Lindbergh, Chamberlin and others under the division of National News it would seem that some of the criticisms of TIME have been justified. This is a direct affront to our "Heroes of the Air." The mention of this ill-famed slacker is bad enough but the space the cut uses would have been well left blank. It may be that TIME has forgotten America's part in those hectic days...