Word: protestable
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Pointing his index finger at M. Caillaux, he continued: "You have never ceased to protest your innocence. In that case, you ought to have demanded a retrial. You have preferred to come back here by the back door of electoral amnesty. . . . You doubted the possibility of victory [in the War] and risked the ruin of France. Not only do I refuse my confidence, but I consider your presence on the Government bench a defiance of the dead and living...
...another occasion they assembled in plenary session and, with loud huzzas, voted their indignant protest against the Emperor of China for pulling the pigtail of his Grand Vizier. They also dispatched a special messenger to His Imperial Majesty with their resolution upon the inviolability of pigtails...
...effect that any similar infringement of journalistic etiquette would be severely punished. Other colleges evidently felt that they might need to protect themselves against the irrepressible doings of their undergraduates, and be called upon to justify their actions in the eyes of the world. Unaffected by outside protest, the authorities of Harvard have quietly continued to keep their hands off of student opinion, knowing that the whole affair would take care of itself. Such far-seeing trust, questioned, as it is at this moment by outsiders, cannot be too deeply appreciated by those within the college...
These last merited superlatives are a lenient to the above protest, in the interests of truth, against eulogies of the Theatre Guild that have become a fixed habit. Caesar and Cleopatra is a brilliant entertainment; but, had it been produced by Lee Shubert, it would not have been equally eulogized...
When questioned as to his view of the police action, Professor Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, spoke as follows in protest against the recent suppression...