Word: protestable
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...people whom I have in mind are the first to complain of mob law, lawless violence of laborites and other disturbances of the peace, but when it comes to a violation of the 18th Amendment, and the Volstead law, they seem to feel no obligation to protest. They would look at this law, that is declared in the Constitution and in the statute book, with contempt. One hears intelligent people say: 'As this contracts my liberty, I don't regard it as necessary to observe it.' Although they don't intend to, if they say that...
Mechanics. Fifteen men who run the present House, whom the balance of the membership follows without much protest, are the following...
...General Assembly in 1843, therefore, the non-intrusion party presented its protest and withdrew, to organize as the Free Church of Scotland. Dr. Chalmers was chosen first moderator of the new Assembly, protestant within protestantism...
...première of the film, Street Angel, were invited Rome's most scintillant critics, most potent cinema tycoons. When an unsalubrious and perhaps unrecognizable Naples flickered before their eyes, they whistled and hissed in protest. One critic shouted "Only the fact that we are guests prevents this theatre from being inundated under a Niagara of violent indignation." The theatre therefore was saved but the Board of Censors was doomed a few hours hence...
...Rudolph did not retire. What held him back was another battle, again with his father. Father Claus, standing at his open window had sneezed, once, twice, three times. To the gas company whose plant was pouring smoke over San Francisco Father Claus sent a vigorous protest. He started a gas company of his own, deliberately set out to drive the San Francisco Gas Co. to the rocks. But Son Rudolph, on the verge of retirement, was a stockholder in the besieged company. When the stock fell, he gained control, cut out $300,000 waste, whipped Father Claus a second time...