Word: protestable
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During the hectic days of registration, the memory of which is gradually fading like a bad dream, the voices of a few were heard protesting feebly against the necessity of filling a bond with the University. The protest was negligible beside the wholesale acceptance and approval of the majority of undergraduates who found the bursar's card transforming them into modern Aladdins by the mere signing of their names...
...tagged, registered, and posted in New York and delivered a week later in San Francisco. The public, little realizing the precedent established, laughed and forgot the incident. And now what is the result? Postmaster Behymer of Cincinnati rises in his seat at the National Association of Postmasters to protest against the promiscuous shipment of alligators. Mr. Behymer points out that livestock, under the law, is entitled to the privileges of being mailed. He faces calmly the prospect of "being obliged to attend, water and feed various fowls and irritated livestock",--if they can be termed "harmless" and wear badges...
...officially shut down some 250,000 years ago following a "walkout" by the delegates of the human race, attributed to their breaking the Management's game laws. As far as can be determined, there was no opposition offered and no disturbance or damage to private property inflicted in protest. Today, under somewhat different circumstantiates, the newspaper Adam and Eve have been brought out of the newspaper Eden in the Maine woods,--hurriedly wrapped up in horse-blankets, and transported in the depute of flavor to answer to the charge of violating modern game laws...
...Library since its old home, the historic Cloth Hall, was destroyed by the Germans on August 25, 1914. At that time he joined with several other leaders in Europe in asserting that the building should eventually be restored by the civilized nations of the world as a gesture of protest against such barbarism. He was present at the first meeting in France at which this sentiment was expressed, and volunteered his services at that time: Since then, he has been at work on the project continuously, and is endeavoring to make this memorial the masterpiece of his career...
...write flashy, prize-winning books without any permanent value; and the ease and number of awards has already lessened their worth and the confidence in the juries which made them. Even the security or that court of highest appeal, the "Academic Francaise" is feared for. French critics, storm, protest, and sign manifestos,--but the only effect so far has been to call forth the announcement of a new fiction prize of 30,000 francs. Present day prophets the "wise one", predict a day when French authors will be obliged to conceal the fact that their work was "Crowned",--after this...