Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brera it was Raphael's Nuptials of the Virgin and Bellini's Pietà. From Padua, Giotto's Crucifixion, elaborately and tenderly packed, set out for Paris and from Venice, Giorgione's The Tempest and Mantegna's Saint George. Benito Mussolini accepted but one rebuff, from the Vatican, which held to its policy that the fine museums in Vatican City may not lend their paintings. He even sent Titian's Venus of Urbino from Florence's Uffizi, although a gap had already been left for it on the walls of Venice...
...intimate details of the inner Liggett, but those few shed their little beams. In his salad days Liggett once took a girl to dinner at a restaurant, faced artichoke for the first time. When the waiter saw that he was painfully swallowing each leaf he tactfully interposed, got a rebuff for his pains. Said Liggett: "You'd better mind your own business. I always eat them this way at home." Famed among drugmen are Liggett's letters to the trade, invariably addressed "Dear Pardner." Sample: "... I now find myself burdened with an innate feel ing to again come...
...ceremonies took one look at him, signaled the orchestra for a fanfare, announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, we have with us tonight one of the greatest celebrities of the nation, the Honorable James A. Farley, Postmaster General of the United States." Resorting to a defense which he perfected to rebuff friends of Mr. Farley who hail him in hotel lobbies as "Jim," Mayor Smith quickly lighted a cigaret. But the crowd, unaware that Mr. Farley does not smoke, craned necks, goggled, clapped...
...renewal of the Automobile Code contrary to the wishes of the A. F. of L. followed by his blunt rebuff of A. F. of L. protests...
...face the Senate vote was a smashing rebuff to President Roosevelt, the second major Congressional defeat of his Administration. But had the President really been heart & soul behind the Court? The wisest answer seemed to be: No. A Court plank had been in his party's platform. It offered an easy means of bolstering his weak foreign record. As much as anything else, defeat had been due to careless White House strategy. Because the President was not ready with his Senate program, opposition to the World Court had had two full weeks to marshal its forces...