Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wise boys interspersed to give the outrageous affair an air of sanctity. Rather than forego an afternoon of quiet sport, the journalists condescended to play a few innings with their nondescript antagonists. But when more thugs appeared on the scene in the fifth inning, the game was protested. The protest was carried to the highest authority, the manager of the CRIMSON team, who allowed it. The game is therefore declared forfeited to the CRIMSON, by a score...
...rest of the number is less controversial, more purely literary. Mr. Mitchell's "Study of Oscar Wilde" is judicious, sound, and pleasing, though he uses some odd English--"he was wretchedly raised"; "wearing his top coat every day and leaving it off on Sundays," "impulsive with protest against the contract of existence"; and "protagonists" in a wrong sense. The essay leaves us in doubt as to whether Wilde's work is really worth such thorough study and careful criticism...
...Irish idiom is a trifle apparent; and Mr. Grant Code's "The Smile" places an old theme in an up-to-date Central American setting with considerable success. The articles on topics of the day begin with Mr. J. S. Watson's "Art and Artificiality," a not quite articulate protest against the "Safety First" temperament. Mr. McComb in his paper "Of Individuality" deals with an allied subject with greater brevity and force. Mr. Burrows replies to an editorial criticizing his expansionist views, but leaves the impression that if Mr. Mitchell cares to continue the argument there are obvious enough openings...
...nations in earlier wars where the United States had stoutly punished the guilty people, while nowadays little notice is taken of such proceedings. "Although Berlin," he said, "is half responsible for the massacre of innocent people, the United States should be held equally accountable for making no form of protest. An eventual break with Germany will be inevitable and the American people must be ready in resources and equipment, as well as spirit...
...other poets cling to more familiar methods. Mr. Cutler's heartfelt protest...