Word: protestable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...imputed truckle was Sir Austen's failure to protest, last week, after two Fascist detectives in Milan had assaulted, clubbed and kicked not merely a British subject but Captain Delafons...
Their tempers were not improved by word of the I. C. C.'s decision to allow the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway to build 38 miles of new line from Cochran's Mill (Pa.) to Connellsville (Pa.), over the protest of competing lines, Pennsylvania, Nickel Plate, Baltimore and Ohio, Wheeling and Lake Erie...
...Tammany, founded in Revolutionary times by a New York upholsterer named William Mooney to give the bourgeoisie a club comparable to the aristocratic Society of the Cincinnati, to which only New York's fine families belonged. An Indian patron-saint and Indian rigmarole were adopted as a protest against Toryism. The objects of the Society were and have been benevolent-making immigrants comfortable, for example. The activities of the members were and have been political. After comforting immigrants, one can enfranchise them and show them how to vote...
Answering the porters' protest, the Pullman Co. stated that $72.50 was the wage paid newly employed men. Oldtimers' wages are as high as $104 a month. In the company's judgment, tips run from $75 per month up. The company believed $33 a high figure for "on the road" expenses. It pointed out that one-third of the porters receive two free uniforms per annum...
...reminiscent of reports and tutorial labors. The familiar essay seems more in keeping with the spirit of the Advocate than any scholarly treatise on the subject of one of our modern poets. But then, the editors are apparently seeking to publish a well balanced magazine, and your reviewer's protest against Mr. Robinson's essay may be in the nature of a confession of bourgeoise taste in reading matter. At all odds Mr. Lewis' article provides more enjoyable reading and possesses the added virtue of argumentative provocation...