Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also, permit me to gently protest against the light way in which you discussed the artist's eccentricities. Sir, if you could but know the pathos of that powerful but thwarted will! To be born with any esthetic conception in this age is to be born into pain. Bufano's capacity to suffer is very great, and I cannot help but think how your article must have pained him. The creation of a colossal St. Francis was one of his great dreams. But he sacrificed too much for it, gave it the significance the world demanded...
...series of mysterious murders, in which the victim invariably has a hoof-mark around the left eye, helps make plain people restive. When the city goes bankrupt for $576,000,000, with its Mayor junketing in Paris, public apathy is at last aroused. At a property-owners' protest banquet, winged words fan the flames. "Poison'ly, Mister Tussmester and fellow goats, poison'ly, I'm getting tired eating all the tin kens our friends in City Hall has been feeding us the last few years. Even a goat becomes gradually tired from eating tin kens...
...present strikes in Haverhill, Newburyport, and Amesbury have reached very considerable proportions. A total of ten thousand five hundred shoe workers have walked out of the factories in protest against low wages, poor shop conditions, and non-recognition of unions. The progress of the strike so far, however, has been a forlorn revelation of Labor's impotence in the depression...
...wish to protest," said each man simply, "against what I consider the Government's failure to deal adequately with the scandal of income tax evasion by Japan's rich...
...games with Purdue this year have been the most exciting of the Big Ten season. In the first, an Ohio State player committed a foul which seemed to Purdue's wiry, black-haired Coach Ward ("Piggy") Lambert so dastardly that he rushed out on the floor to protest. Purdue got two free shots but Ohio State got one for Coach Lambert's indiscretion. Purdue's two throws tied the score; Ohio's broke the tie and won the game. Last week there was talk of "severing relations" between Purdue and Ohio. After their second game, which...