Word: disavow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the royal visit of Their Britannic Majesties, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, only three months off, loyal Canadians could not let such treasonous talk go unnoticed. Authors, educators, businessmen hastened to disavow their mayor. French-Canadian members of the Dominion Parliament at Ottawa publicly disagreed with him. A raucous debate was expected. Minister of Labor William Tremblay of Quebec declared: "Mayor Houde missed his shot with the Communists and is now trying his luck with the Fascists, poor fellow." Noteworthy it was, however, that the Quebec Government of Premier Maurice Duplessis preferred not to enter the argument...
Jean de Botton is the bellwether of a small group of French painters who confess that the chief aim of their art is to give pleasure. They disavow both literal story-telling and the abstractionism of painters who paint to please themselves...
...stand ready to avow or disavow promptly and explicitly any precise or definite opinion which I may be charged with having declared of any Gentleman. More than this cannot fitly be expected from me. ... I trust, on more reflection, you will see the matter in the same light with me. If not. I can only regret the circumstances; and must abide by the consequences...
...hands in holy horror (TIME, April 15). For these were no ordinary course-of-business contracts: solely on the basis of Hydro's promise to buy, the private companies sold bonds to the public to finance enormous expansions up & down the swift rivers of Quebec. For Ontario to disavow these power contracts was only one step removed from deliberately defaulting on a direct Provincial loan...
...reject atheistic Communism. We disavow racial Hitlerism. We turn our backs upon industrial Fascism. We insist upon a legislature as the Fathers of our country created it, not under the dictatorship of a President, not under the dictatorship or the fear of a high commissioner of prostituted patronage which tends to make America a one-party government. We are not organized to compete with the old parties. But we are organizing under a definite necessity to blast out of existence the reactionaries, the threadbare conservatives and the hypocrites who disgrace the halls of Congress as they impede the movement towards...