Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have no desire to change these declarations except to strengthen them, if possible. If such a protest has in reality been made, I take this opportunity to assure those who have made it that it will be answered promptly upon its receipt...
Samuel Gompers,President of the American Federation of Labor, returned to the U. S. fresh from a romp in Mexico, where he had been supporting Radical General Plutarco Calles for the Mexican Presidency, and whence have emanated shrieks of protest from Conservative supporters of General Adolfo de la Huerta...
...understand that a small group of Mexican politicians has formulated a protest addressed to me because of the declarations which I made in favor of General Calles...
...identified with an advertising firm, then another, in which his native ingenuity and artistic talent bring him reasonable success. An abortive love affair with a co-worker is ended abruptly by the lady's untimely suicide; he finally marries a childhood sweetheart, against his mother's passionate protest, and finds in her a voracious wife who does her best to swallow his soul and finally runs away with another man; he loses his mother-a miracle of sympathy and self-abnegation-on the same evening; he finally sees a new beauty opening for him in a new love...
...gratifying prevalence of sanity at this seat of learning, I suppose that nothing need really have been said at all. I am, however, unable to deny myself the pleasure of inquiring whether Mr. Sinclair's absence from the Harvard-Yale football games posterior to 1916 was intended as a protest against the insidious spread of "Romanism" among our players? I am-- Very Sincerely HUGH WHITNEY...