Word: protestable
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...Cape Town, a Negro mass meeting of protest was held. The Chairman said: "We have not got any trust in the white man along either political, educational or religious lines. The salvation of the non-European lies in himself...
...counsels of certain picture promoters to capitalize in the name of reform the death of her famed husband, the public was divided between crass curiosity and amazed disappointment. The curious were in the majority, apparently, since her dope film went the rounds and now has a successor. The present protest is against jazz and the younger generation. It teaches that parents must set a good example to their children. It follows the faithful old anti-jazz formula which has been a cinema staple five long years...
Germans awoke one fine morning to find that all the mail boxes had been painted white and red-the Polish national colors. The Danzig authorities protested, stating that Poland was permitted postal sovereignty only within the Polish postoffice. The protest fell upon deaf ears. The next night, Germans repainted the mail boxes black, white and red-the old colors of Imperial Germany. Poles, angered, demanded an apology. No apology was given; the authorities instead asked the League for a ruling...
...handful of students remaining in Lawrence for the vacation paraded the streets as a protest against the eviction of their Chancellor, indignantly repudiated the charge of aloofness, declaring themselves to be the best judges. Many irate Republicans wrote letters of protest to the Administration; many a staunch Democrat backed the Governor against his agitated enemies. It was, however, bruited about that the new Governor, Ben S. Paulen, Republican to the core, would reinstate the Chancellor. Public opinion became calmer...
...protest. For weeks past it has been to me a source of extreme haemeotropiros to peruse the languid quaintness of your dramatic reviews, from which I invariably recover (than my lucky stars!) with a realization that the unfortunate play, or playwright, or manager, or both, have been surreptitiously pen-handled by the critic. But I forgive him--now, for I have discovered that only innocence or naivete has produced the effect of an apparently learned discussion of so learned a topic as the stock performance of a play only recently produced on Broadway by much superior talent, which play, after...