Word: affronting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...However, the swastika wreath is not an insult to the Harvard Chapel alone, it is a brazen and sneering affront to the entire University, for the wreath is an emblem of a regime which has terrorized the students and professors of Germany, and which has reduced the splendid German national culture to an incoherent barbarism. That the friends and representatives of the Hitler government should dare to lay this swastika wreath in the name of peace, at the precise moment when Hitler, throwing aside all pretense, is arming his enslaved nation to the teeth, is a glaring example...
Ontario papers have been roasting "Mitch" for his recent affront to King George in refusing to attend the viceregal banquet of Lieutenant Governor Dr. Herbert Bruce (TIME, Feb. 11). At the Legislature's opening last week "Mitch" definitely welshed. He had threatened to deny George V's representative the royal salute. It crashed and thundered as Royal Canadian Dragoons saluted in Dr. Bruce by a legal fiction "the person of the King." Admirers of "Mitch" had expected him to bar the Lieutenant Governor from Ontario's Throne. Instead dignified old Dr. Bruce, with radiant young Mrs. Bruce...
...this letter that served as the "cease firing" signal to the fortnight's affray. Obviously the President could not afford to fall out irrevocably with organized labor. Obviously organized labor neither dared nor desired to affront the man in the White House. So pious "Bill" Green summoned the reporters, told them: "Roosevelt is our hope and our strength. We want to go over to the White House and discuss all Labor problems and show our faith...
...would not have the members of your committee for a moment to think that this protest is motivated by a spirit of retaliation, that I am unduly peeved and aggrieved at an injustice or an affront done me personally. To make objection to confirmation upon that unsound basis would be unworthy of a United States Senator...
When every Madrid newspaper of consequence denounced the Commission as an "affront to Spain," French Commissioner Bourthomieux discreetly took the first train for Paris. The Britons and the Czech stuck, to be jeered by hoodlums in the streets. Armed with a letter from Premier Lerroux, they sped to Asturias, the "Atrocities Province," presented their credentials at Oviedo to Major Doval, the Military Acting Governor. "Certainly, my Lord and Miss Wilkinson," beamed the Major, "it will be a pleasure...