Word: protestable
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...Esmond Ovey made no protest, went on quietly forking some excellent caviar. Beyond a doubt all the knives, forks and spoons on the table had been seized during the Russian Revolution from the then British Embassy-i.e. stolen. Never did the grand old motto of the British Royal Arms turn up more appropriately, "Shamed be he who thinks evil...
President Lowell of Harvard University, who sometimes seems very close to the stern, unbending Puritan of tradition, has yielded one step to the protest of Harvard graduates and undergraduates against the intention to omit from the new Harvard Memorial Chapel any mention of the three Harvard graduates who died fighting in the German armies. The chapel will be a monument to the men who gave their lives in the Allied cause, but there will be room in it for a tablet to the three Germans, all of whom, as it happens, died before the United States entered the World...
Precedent, like Gods of the Lightning, the Sacco-Vanzetti protest piece, may not be a play at all, but it has the undeniable power of sincerity behind it, enough to cover any amount of dramaturgical flaws. After seeing it, you would have a hard time not taking one side or the other in the Mooney-Billings case, for a while at least...
...were en route to Newark, N. J., where the annual meeting was scheduled. Few would have thought of going had not it been known that at this meeting the management would ask for approval of a resolution upholding the much-argued Bethlehem bonus plan, that a minority interest might protest, ask pertinent questions. Yet that very morning Vice-Chancellor John H. Backes had signed an order which made much of the meeting meaningless. He ruled that while the stockholders might vote, the result of the vote might not be written into the corporate records. Approval of the majority, he said...
Pressure has been brought to bear by Stanford and Dartmouth graduates of Greater Boston to make possible the first Stanford game in Boston, and hotel men, anxious for the increased trade have joined in the protest at the mayor's action. In view of these facts, the consensus is that the H.C.-B.C. game will be played on November 28 in Fenway Park, with the Big Green and Stanford meeting in the Stadium on the same date. The Boston College "Heights" has refrained from editorial comment...