Word: rebuff
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...decency, and the decent symbols by which they are expressed, have thus lost meaning and significance. The Transcript says, transparently enough: "The picture men were asked by Charles Whitesido...to limit themselves to pictures of young Roosevelt in a group ...."This agreement they inexcusably violated, and then turned their rebuff into copy quite as inexcusable. The temper of a nation which demands from its newspapers photographs of women in the electric chair presents a curious problem in psychology. Until it is solved, Harvard must assure those who enter its jurisdiction that they shall be not more than normally exposed...
...presidential study 85-year-old Paul von Hindenburg disdainfully refuses 43-year-old Adolf Hitler's plea that he, as leader of the Nazi Party (largest in the Reichstag) be made Chancellor with "precisely the powers" of Benito Mussolini (TIME, Aug. 22). Less than six months after this rebuff, the Goddess of the Eternal Court of History-as Orator Hitler so fetchingly calls her-makes him Chancellor of the Reich by assent of Old Paul von Hindenburg (TIME...
...Greece. Italian newsorgans were furious. Rumania lately turned down a proposal by Benito Mussolini that she sign a treaty pledging assistance to Italy in case of a war with Jugoslavia. From Italy's standpoint the Rumanian Government, by consenting to a Jugoslavian state visit, was offering a rebuff to Italy, putting Il Duce's political nose out of joint...
...Never before has any attempt of mine at an approach to the beautiful sex met with such an energetic rebuff; even should perchance such have ever been the case, then certainly not by so many all at once...
...with Germany, a maneuver made possible by the fact that the Reich now has a "Cabinet of Monocles," extreme reactionaries who are anathema to Communists. France, though no real friend of Russia, hopes to stimulate her trade with the Soviet Union, especially in view of London's trade rebuff to Moscow last week (see p. 15) and at all costs France wants to isolate Germany from Soviet military...