Word: affronted
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...died. Japan's crown prince is therefore Prince Chichibu, eldest brother of the Emperor, but no allusion to this fact is ever made by the intensely loyal Japanese press. It is even widely held that the birth of a son to Prince Chichibu would be an intolerable affront to the Son of Heaven. Thus far Crown Princess Setsuko (daughter of onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U. S. Tsuneo Matsudaira * has remained childless, an object of Japanese sympathy and esteem. Without venturing a direct comment, the genealogical experts of the Imperial Household Ministry discreetly apprised the press last week that...
Inches here surpass fathoms of elevation. If the Lowell House dais had been a four inch depression instead, where dignitaries in dinner coats are served about a symbolic fountain of Florida water of five or ten watts even, the affront to democracy would have been extreme, and beyond measure regrettable...
...Anglo-Indian round table conference in London next October will be "free"?that is, will not be compelled to work out a solution in terms of the Simon Report. Since Sir John Simon is a Liberal his party appeared, last week, to take this declaration as an affront to them. The Earl of Birkenhead, knowing very well that St. Gandhi and many of the most representative leaders of Indian thought are in jail, stormed: "I suppose that the Government intends to empty jails of law-breakers to equip the round table with witnesses...