Word: snub
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When informed of the snub Massachusetts Medicine had given Dr. Truesdale as a result of her case, she wept great tears and cried: "Those cruel, old fogy New England doctors. . . . Oh, I love Dr. Truesdale. What can I do to help him? He was grand...
...Snub. Last year President Roosevelt sent greetings to the Chamber. Year before he addressed it in person. This year he cut it dead. Chamber officials and White House secretaries denied an intentional snub, explaining that the President was too busy to speak and had not been asked for a message. Nevertheless, the Chamber rebels trembled in defiant delight, convinced that they had thoroughly riled the President...
...pioneer in the art of personal salesmanship, simply oozing elusive charm and sterling worth from every pore." Benjamin F. Butler was "a classic example of the bartender politician, with one eye and that bleary, two left feet and a genius for getting them into every plate, too important to snub." But he quotes sympathetically a remark of Butler's (who, as commander of the Northern troops in New Orleans, was the mosthated man in that city), when Southern ladies pointedly turned their backs on him: "These ladies evidently know which end of them looks best...
...Irishmen would have it that last week "King George received a direct, personal snub from President de Valera." Actually the tall, teacherish, wild-haired executive of the Irish Free State (which Irishmen say "is not Irish, is not Free and is not a State") conveyed to Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald a polite, though stiff intimation that "in existing circumstances" he "will not be able" to attend the Royal Jubilee with other dominion heads. In attendance, however, will be the Irish Free State's London-resident High Commissioner...
What did Mrs. Roosevelt think of that for a snub? Mrs. Roosevelt did not think it was a snub at all. "A snub," she defined, "is the effort of a person who feels superior to make someone else feel inferior; to do so, he has to find someone who can be made to feel inferior." From that it followed that Miss Perkins could not possibly have been snubbed...