Word: affronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short. Two Negro delegates-one of them Florida Educator Mary McLeod Bethune-started for the platform to demand an explanation. Blushing, Dr. Estes seized a microphone, said: "Coming from the Deep South as I do, perhaps I am prone to use such words without realizing that they may give affront. I will say to the Conference: when there is a marriage and the first misunderstanding arises, what happens? We make up, of course. I say now, let's make...
...Laborite motion of censure brought against Mr. Chamberlain declared "that in the opinion of this House, the decision of His Majesty's Government to grant unconditional recognition to the Spanish Insurgent forces, dependent upon foreign intervention, constitutes a deliberate affront to the legitimate Government of a friendly power, is a gross breach of international traditions and marks a further stage in a policy which is steadily destroying in all the democratic countries confidence in the good faith of Britain...
...article on Gunga Din, TIME, Feb. 6, I take exception to your statement ". . . nor affront the intelligence of their seniors."* I think it is an insult to the intelligence of the moviegoer to expect him to believe among other things...
...TIME said: "First-class entertainment, it will neither corrupt the morals of minors nor affront the intelligence of their seniors. But unfortunately, Gunga Din ... a symbol of Hollywood's current trend ... is as deplorable as it is enlightening ... a $2,000,000 rehash...
...individual product of the cinema industry, there is practically nothing to be said against Gunga Din. First-class entertainment, it will neither corrupt the morals of minors nor affront the intelligence of their seniors. But unfortunately, Gunga Din is not an isolated example of the cinema industry's majestic mass product. It is a symbol of Hollywood's current trend. As such it is as deplorable as it is enlightening...