Word: rebuff
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Oliver's second rebuff is deeper and more poignant. Since his boyhood he has felt a strong affection for Rose Darnley, younger sister of his father's old companion, a graceful, sensitive girl whose temperament is somewhat like his own. During the War, when Oliver is certain that he is going to be killed, when his failure to solve the moral problems that oppress him has led to his physical breakdown, he proposes to Rose that she marry him so that he may leave his fortune to her. But Rose has fallen in love with Mario, although Mario...
...Heard in silence a curt rebuff administered by Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare to the Leader of the Labor Party, "Old George" Lansbury, who proposed, "His Majesty's Government, in conjunction with the Government of the United States, should revive the World Economic Conference and arrange to distribute the World's economic resources so that countries like Italy, Japan and Germany, whose needs for expansion are generally admitted, could get what they need without aggression...
...retirement of Madam Secretary Perkins to a back seat in labor affairs. While the Labor Bill was in the making Mme Perkins fought to have its execution vested in her department rather than in an independent Labor Board. Congress rebuffed her. The President in signing the act hammered that rebuff home: "It should be clearly understood that [the Labor Board] will not act as mediator or conciliator. . . . The function of mediation remains, under this act, the duty of the Secretary of Labor. ... It is important that the judicial function and the mediation function should not be confused...
...newshawks who trooped into the White House two days later for the President's regular mid-week press conference, the progress of work relief was of small interest. What they and the nation wanted to know was what President Roosevelt was going to do about his House rebuff. That was precisely what President Roosevelt did not wish to discuss. Hence, like any Senator, he launched a one-man filibuster...
...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...