Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your reporter seek out Dr. Harry B. Pinney, the able, affable secretary of Chicago? There would have been no rebuff...
...Mellon amiably on the shoulder, assured him they had had no intention of making off with his unique machine. The next day Secretary of State Stimson reaffirmed the government's refusal to have any connection, official or otherwise, with the International Bank of Settlements. This was no direct rebuff to Messrs. Young & Morgan. In May, Statesman Stimson had publicly announced the same thing: that there would be no Hoover recognizance of any connection between war debts and reparations. Well knowing their government's attitude, the U. S. commissioners had inserted a provision in the Young Plan whereby private...
...Finally the War Minister decided that in this instance the uncertain quantity or "X" stood for a good & honest cook. Therefore Mme. Jacquet Was appointed, last week, to the regiment at Tourelles until such time as it may be ordered upon active service. Pleased but with a sense of rebuff, Mme. Jacquet said sturdily: "To my mind, God willing, it should be my duty to follow the regiment in war as well as peace...
Another school of thought interpreted the Fess appointment as a studied rebuff to Hooverism. The committee members who made the appointment were predominantly un-Hooverish, including New York's Hilles, Connecticut's Roraback, Mrs. Hert of Kentucky and David W. Mulvane of Kansas, besides Chairman Butler. Senator Fess had energetically abetted the anti-Hoover campaign of his dead Ohio colleague, Senator Willis. Now that Senator Willis was gone, the elevation of his oldtime professor and friend seemed more calculated than sentimental...
...Take back your gold!" was the customary rebuff given the villain of old-time melodrama when he tried to use his ill-gotten gains for improper ends, and if Senator Borah's plan succeeds he will be able to clear the name of the Republican party by applying the same method to Harry F. Sinclair, whose contributions to the 1920 campaign fund of the party have been discovered to be not entirely from altruistic motives. But a necessary accompaniment to such a speech is the gold itself, and unhappily the Republicans have long ago seen the last of it disappear...