Word: dismissiveness
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...swastika band of the Danish Nazis, on others the hammer & sickle of Communism (see p. 18). The mob had gathered from the eastern Danish islands, where little farms are thickest, to demand that Premier Theodore Stauning lower farm taxes, raise farm prices, declare a farm mortgage moratorium and dismiss politicians from the Government's agricultural bureaus. In a huff the Premier refused to see the farmers' delegates. Thereupon the whole 50,000 surged to the Royal Palace...
...London hospital, free for the first time, he fell pleasantly in love in Seville, where he was made a "pretty fool of." An inexperienced author, he hesitated about writing the story of his love affair, compromised by turning out a book of sketches the mature Maugham was to dismiss as "crude and gushing." Despite his impulse to try again, despite his deep love for Spain, he could never find a Spanish character or theme to satisfy him. He wanted to write a romantic historical novel, rejected the story of Ponce de León because Ponce...
...Rumania, since Hohenzollern King Carol's youngest sister is the Archduchess Ileana of Habsburg, family ties kept the official press mum. At a meeting of the National Peasant Party, which spends most of its time exhorting King Carol to dismiss his red-headed Jewish mistress, Archduke Otto was introduced last week as a welcome change of subject. Peasant Party orators thundered that the Little Entente will, if necessary, fling its three oversized armies totaling some 635,000 men against Austria or Hungary to repel the Habsburgs...
...powers of a European president whose acts must be countersigned like those of a king by the appropriate minister, but further endowed by Article XIII with what the new Constitution calls "prerogatives," these requiring no countersignature. At his autocratic pleasure he can dissolve the Sejm and Senate and can dismiss the Premier, First President of the Supreme Court, President of the Supreme Chamber of Control, and the Commander-in-Chief and Inspector General of Poland's armed forces by land, sea and air. Moreover the President orders Polish general elections and nominates one of the candidates who may succeed...
Shortly after she broke off with Orlov Catherine struck up the strangest of her partnerships-with Gregory Potemkin, one-eyed, clumsy, moody, brilliant. It was an alliance that soon ceased to be physical (Potemkin chose and dismissed her lovers himself) but remained intimate. Both profited by it; Potemkin to the tune of some 50 million rubles. They lived to see part of their dream come true: Russia mistress of the Baltic and the Black Sea, Russian frontiers pushed far into the west. But there came a day, when Catherine was 62, when she refused to dismiss her current lover...