Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extremely serious feud is raging between Lowell and Eliot Houses over the beauties of their respective courtyards in spring time. It all started when an unofficial sampling of Bellboys revealed that they considered their courtyard to be "the beauty spot of Cambridge." Elephant supporters rose in revolt to protest, only to be met by a Lowell statement that their courtyard contains a dogwood, four lilacs, and a cherry. Latest word from "The Latter-Day Eden" is that they expect to counter the Lowell claim by pointing out that their courtyard has Merriman ad a large tree...
...only useful purpose I can imagine in your reproducing Thomas Benton's painting . . . with explanations (TIME, April 6), was to arouse a storm of protest against the use of such material for propaganda purposes. At least you have succeeded in getting one old subscriber to write his first letter to the editor...
...letter to London's Times, George Bernard Shaw cried out in shocked protest against a new British sales tax of nearly 67% on musical instruments. "In my boyhood I had a chance of being qualified as an oboist," he recalled, "and I should have jumped at it if I could have obtained ?14, which was the price of a second-hand oboe seventy years ago. For want of that sum I was lost to woodwind forever and had to adopt a profession in which the equipment was 6 pennyworth of stationery...
...first important by-law shakeup since 1928 (when voting control was taken out of the hands of the 173 members who owned a majority of the bonds). Heretofore election to A.P. required approval of four-fifths of the total membership, and a single member, by "right of protest," could blackball any candidate in his city, for any reason at all. This exclusiveness largely accounted for the rise of such A.P. rivals as Scripps-Howard's U.P. and Hearst's I.N.S. With the abolition of the blackball privilege, any paper can gain admission if it wins the vote...
...gratifying to me, after all these years of protest against an important foreign policy, to see our country finally on the right path," Brinnin stated. "Now that the meusce has been recognized by all poets are changing their tone in an effort to indicate new roads to be followed, and it is possible that a new golden age of poetry is in sight...