Word: protestable
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...insistent official foreign protest has not been considered at the Secretary's office. With many more demonstrations like the Parisian episode, Mr. Kellogg can, perhaps, envision the story from another angle, perhaps as psychologically delineated by Author Dos Passos...
...bread" throughout the week. Peasants, the bourgeoisie and the nobility likewise masticated this coarse fare. Exporters estimated that some 3,000,000 Belgian francs were saved during the week through this self denial, enforced upon the country by King-Albert, now Dictator of Belgium (TIME, July 26 et seq.). Protest. Delegations of Belgian hotel men waited upon His Majesty last week, petitioned him not to sign a decree increasing the tax on foreigners' hotel bills in Belgium 20%. The King was informed by many an anxious boniface that tourists will not flock to Belgium if the present inducements...
...bousa (beer). A yard- wide French-operated railway climbs from French Jibuti on the Gulf of Aden 500 miles inland to Addis Ababa, the capital of Abyssinia. From this glorified dung hill, seat of an Imperial House which claims descent from the biblical Queen of Sheba, a formal protest reached the Secretariat of the League of Nations last week. Prince Regent Taffari of Abyssinia declared in the name of the retired Empress Zauditu that he has seldom met with foreigners who do not desire to possess themselves of Abyssinia and to destroy the independence of the Ethiopian Empire. Specifically...
Dutifully an underling of the League Secretariat filed one more protest of the weak against the omnipotent for future reference...
...nooses tightened simultaneously, Deputy Torgoud Bey screamed a protest cut short by the rope: "Allah! Allah, save us! We are innoce...