Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...institution. Second was Edward who became a professor of music, and now teaches in the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. Youngest son was Stephen, an asthmatic little fellow on whom the children of other professors picked most, thereby provoking Philosopher Royce to write six-page letters of protest to their parents. Little Stephen grew broad and strong, turned into a rough & tumble mining engineer...
...prove how much of the processing tax had been passed on. To keep the refund melon all to themselves, processors relied upon a legal precedent growing out of Wartime excise taxes. In 1918 Congress passed a law taxing soft drinks 10%. A cider manufacturer paid the tax under protest, maintaining that cider could not properly be called a soft drink. Eventually the courts agreed with him, and the Treasury returned his payments. Then his customers sued him for the extra 10% which he had admittedly added to the price of his cider. The courts decided that once the manufacturer...
Gobbled the Earl of Halsbury in protest : "I thought the de Clifford trial was most impressive, most impressive...
...side was the label, "Dictatorial Rowers of the President over All Foreign Trade". If another log, called "Export Interests" had not suddenly appeared and bumped the big log away, the little child night have been drowned. As it was the collision of the two caused a foaming wave of Protest, and as his mouth was open in surprise at the suddenness of it all, he swallowed a good part of that wave. It tasted terribly bitter; with it in his stomach he knew that he could swim no further...
...Diego, Calif., a proposal for a nudist colony as a publicity stunt for the California Pacific International Exposition drew a protest from the Braille Club for the blind of San Diego...