Word: rebuff
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...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...
...Silver was elected bishop coadjutor of Kansas only to have the whole House later veto the title, 50 to 48, because Dr. Silver is a divorced man, reputedly the only divorce ever elected Episcopal bishop. When elected coadjutor of Texas later, Dr. Silver declined sooner than risk another rebuff...
Long and prodding, the letter went on to discuss statutes and customs; to mention the failure of two Republicans (Grant and Roosevelt) who tried to alter custom; to refer to "your recent public rebuff to Herbert Hoover"* and the alleged embarrassment felt by other Republican presidential aspirants due to their chief's silence...