Word: rebuff
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...saved and cooked, gave up the lover who would have carried her off to South America, sent Victor to Harvard, petted him when he flunked out and came home to loaf, feet on fender, in wait for a suitable business position and in self-pitying anguish over the rebuff a New York bud had given his rustic advances. While the rest of the country freed the slaves, built fortunes, warred with Spain, the Campions were claimed by frustration, poverty and middle...
President Coolidge has signified that he has no intention of presenting Ramon Novarro with a make-believe diploma at the graduation exercises at Annapolis, thus definitely refusing to appear in an ordinary motion picture. This is not an official rebuff, but merely a little personal modesty. Even Presidents have their qualms...
...that customers are rushing to Wall Street to buy stocks, feeling assured of safety and prosperity by the fact that the Democratic Party has been beaten by 7,000,000 majority; that throughout the country business men are rejoicing in promise of a great year ahead following our overwhelming rebuff and rebuke. ... If we do not see it and know it, we have less understanding and perception than the ostrich, the strategy of which bird is not considered to be sagacious...
...public was surprised, gratified last week when the readers of the Chicago Daily Tribune declined that paper's offer to broadcast the Loeb-Leopold murder-trial proceedings. The public was further surprised, further gratified when the Tribune editors took counsel over this rebuff, recovered their poise, came out with an open confession of the journalistic soul and a sincere proposal for reform that would have done credit to the most reputable paper in the land...
...Lyon, where he represented Germany in the League of Nations Societies Conference, Count von Bernstorff, onetime German Ambassador to the U. S. (1908-17), said that Germany was not sentimentally interested in the League, hinted that his country would like to join but feared a rebuff from France or Britain or both...