Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...account of mutiny aboard the Imperial Russian cruiser, Prince Potemkin, in the year 1905. It dallies with no hero, no heroine, no plot complication. The drama is of the crew, the human beings who scrub, polish, mother the steel monster and are fed, in return, with wormy meat. They protest. A sail cloth is thrown over 50 sailors, marines are ordered to shoot them down. With one accord, all the men rebel, fling the officers overboard, commandeer the ship, receive food and sympathy from the harbor town of Odessa, steam past the rest of the fleet (whose crews refuse...
Permit me to protest the misspelling of my name on the letter page of your issue of Nov. 12. I have no desire to be thought a "Robbin...
Immediately, Mr. Hogan was on his feet, shouting a violent protest, saying that Mr. Roberts had insulted the defense, reprimanding him for using the word "bribery" before the trial had begun. Nevertheless, presiding Judge Adolph A. Hoehling granted Mr. Roberts' motion after 20 minutes' cogitation, thereby giving the prosecution its first victory. So the jury was "locked up" in a stuffy courthouse dormitory which had only one washstand. On Thanksgiving Day they marched, two by two, under guard, to a turkey dinner...
...second major clash in the trial came when the defense objected to the use of the Senate records as evidence. If this protest had been granted, the Government's case against Messrs. Fall and Doheny would have been ripped into vague shreds. The testimony of Mr. Doheny, before Senator Walsh's investigating committee, that he had "loaned" Mr. Fall $100,000 would have been of no use to the prosecution, and the two years' labors of the Senate would have been legally fruitless. Judge Hoehling announced, after four days' consideration, that the defense's objection...
Defense Attorney Enrico Bologna I protest...