Word: affronts
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...document read to us is marked by a high serenity and gentle philosophy which I hesitate to affront. I have tasted this philosophy and appreciated its nobility and I wonder if my philosophy is fit to face...
Skeptics who affirm that no news is printed in any U. S. sheet which might give affront to the advertisers or possible advertisers of that sheet were shocked last week to see in at least two Manhattan newspapers an account which cast terrible aspersions upon that powerful dining-room incorporation, the Horn & Hardart ("Automat...
...public so that there would be no mistake about it. Certain readers of the Home News, however?those whom Robert Browning could have complimentedtore up their copies of the sheet and stamped upon the fragments. "Our intelligence has been insulted!" they cried?"that is, treated with contempt, an affront...
...still have hopes, together with all those of my profession who feel this rejection of this art as a personal affront, that some day the mistake will be corrected, in the realization that a play-writing school is a greater glory to a university than any business school...
...began it; Senator Neely continued it; then Senator Robinson, the Democratic leader, exclaimed: "It is a manly thing, when one gives offense, whether intentionally or unintentionally, to make a frank and manly apology . . . If the Senator desires to apologize and to withdraw what appears to have been a deliberate affront and befouling of his own nest, a discrediting of his constituency, he will have to withdraw the vital parts of his address, in which he charged himself and his colleagues with deliberately committing crimes against the Government and violating moral as well as political principles...