Word: protestable
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...carve out a musical career for her daughter, despite the girl's love for the inevitable local swain; and then, of course, there is Dudley himself, the typical hail fellow well met of any mid-western Rotary Club who spends his time running prize fights, charity bazaars, and community protest meetings while his paint and varnish factory goes into the red and family difficulties come to a crisis...
...difference is intensified by the acting of Miss Yurka. One is loth to blame her for her declamatory style of acting in a play that was written when such acting was in vogue, but at times one thinks the lady does protest too much, to render ludicrous a scene which Eva Le Gallienne's more subdued portrayal would have made dramatic. Her manner also makes her seem too feline and too charmless to attract the trio of men that the author gathers round her. She is a witch, and not a leading lady...
...Heard Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange, defend short sales, explain how they had kept the market open in critical times, protest against government regulation...
Scarcely less picturesque than its monetary customs are some evidences of the spirit of Piedmont. The place is an almost unique museum of Victorian morals. The faculty allows no dancing "because the trustees wouldn't hear of it." The trustees protest their indifference but say that "the parents would be outraged." Smoking is forbidden for girls and is a privilege in which men can indulge only in furtive privacy. The students are herded to church twice each Sunday...
Naturally gratifying to TIME, the letters constituted an indictment of Radio on a charge of failure-to-provide. That tens of thousands of listeners should protest so violently against the disappearance of any one commercial program as one of the few fit for adult consumption, was testimony to the leanness of Radio fare...