Word: rebuff
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During the past week Foreign Minister Koo sent notes to the U. S., French and Japanese Ministers at Peking, virtually stating that the foreign nations had nothing to do with the Chinese Eastern Railway which would henceforth be controlled by Russia and China. Such a note was indeed a rebuff to the U. S., as well as to France and Japan...
Last week Bucharest was in a frenzy over the rebuff. Paunchy Prime Minister Bratiano had informed the monarchs that they could not got to Rome under Mussolini's humiliating conditions. In the Rumanian Parliament, Foreign Minister Jon Duca, inveighed as follows: "We did not expect that the visit of the royal family, intended to strengthen the relations between the two countries, would be associated with dirty financial interests." Loud cheers...
...restore her to her spouse. The game of tag is over?and the youth is it. He finds he has been spending the night with a Fata Morgana?a will o' the wisp beauty, who dissolves with the morning mists. In its sense of the immense calamity of adolescent rebuff in love, this play by Ernest Vajda borders on tragedy, saved by a youthful sense that tomorrow is another day. It is shot through with sardonic, Continental gleams, and a tingling realization that an amorous adventure can be masked by a stuffy, comatose countryside. Emily Stevens brings out admirably...
...pointed out that, although Premier Zaghlul has intimated his desire of conferring with the British Labor Government upon questions in Egypt, affecting British interests, his determination to achieve real independence for his country is likely to meet with a rebuff from London. The main British interests in Egypt are: safety of the Suez Canal route; safety of British interests in the Sudan, the sovereignty of which remains British pending negotiations with Egypt; safeguards for foreigners in Egypt who were hitherto under British protection; compensation for certain foreign officials; maintenance of military and air force bases...
...crusaders however are not vanquished by this first rebuff. They declare that they will continue their fight against the breakfast egg and that before another week they expect to be rewarded with ash or hash for breakfast...