Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hermine, wife of ex-Kaiser "Bill," visiting relatives in Griez (near Leipzig): "My husband has no plans to join me in Germany. He is longing to return to the Fatherland, but thinks there is no chance to do so. I think likewise." Their thoughts were unaccompanied by any outside protest...
...another notch, sworn dutifully at the broiling sun and attacked that most revered of institutions the prohibition joke. Lest they continue to merit the reputation for over-hasty action, once gained by speed on the trigger and again confirmed by gubernatorial impeachments, the Oklahoma have, however, considerately buried their protest against this kind of humor in the body of a speech in defense of prohibition, delivered before the National Editorial Association...
...Association against the continued publication in enormous numbers of the "pot-boiler" type of novel will have the enthusiastic support of anyone who was tried to pick out a week-end book while trying to catch the last train out of town. Even though a part of the booksellers' protest may be answered with the statement that the tremendous in crease of public interest in literature is probably responsible for the flood of mediocre work now issuing from the press, the fact of its mediocrity must be admitted. If the brotherhood and sisterhood of the P. E. N. would divert...
Action by the U.S. by no means connotes official sympathy with one side or the other, but a firm protest against the right of revolution to settle political dissension...
...very sake of its good name and moral leadership the United States must protest against simplified English as a world language. The export of American movies to the Orient has already done untold harm in revealing to an unsuspecting people the depths of American degradation. If on top of these pictures there arrived a flood of more magazines in an understandable American, and a deluge of Hearst papers the thoroughly moral and harmless races of the world might well rise in horror in exterminate a degenerate nations...