Word: rebuff
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Three of the most prominent Cabinet members at once tried to resign, were curtly told that the King did not accept their resignations. "Most disastrous!" groaned Count de Romanones, "richest Spaniard," entrapped as Minister of State by the King's rebuff. (Despite the fact that Count de Romanones is supposed to own the manorial town of Guadalajara outright, he had been unable to keep its citizens from electing Republicans...
Catholic Italy is not like Catholic Malta, whence last week Pope Pius XI received a sharp rebuff. In Milan one Eugenio Bassani, shopkeeper, recently spoke his mind. Last week he was convicted of "speaking ill of the Pope," was fined 1,000 lira ($52.39), sentenced to six months in jail...
...would find bull-baiting more appropriate. Be that as it may. Surely it is neither kind nor dignified to ridicule an occupation chosen seriously and fraught with all the ardent idealism of youth. The chick that will emerge from the academic egg this June does not deserve a harsh rebuff. What if a few pieces of shell do grace its diminutive tail feathers! Think of the Big Bear and the Medium-sized Bear and all the little Bears that amble so quaintly through the nursery days! Happy childhood will seem so far away out in the great world that...
...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...