Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...library of his home in Los Angeles, with a newspaperman before him, a lawyer by his side and a stenographer at hand. The newspaperman had come at his request and the stenographer at the newspaperman's request, and the lawyer was apparently there to protest against the proceeding and give advice on its progress. In brief, Edward L. Doheny was about to tell his story of the notorious Naval Reserve oil leases...
...pastor, one Julius F. Seebach. This summer, the Rev. Mr. Seebach took a much-needed holiday in Europe. No other preacher was engaged. Instead, Mrs. Julius Seebach, long rumored to have been the author of her husband's eloquent sermons, took the pulpit. Irritated female parishioners filed a protest with the Rev. Frederick H. Knubel, President of the United Lutheran Church...
...have, at various times before, felt moved to write you, but usually in protest to some of the letters from readers, rather than to the paper. I did, once, protest against an unjust portrayal of the President of this country evidently written by a person on the staff who had never "been here and much less known Mr. Leguia...
...British Consul General delivered a solemn protest to the Chinese Government. Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain in London swore that all British would be defended by every means from violence. "One foreign life for every Chinese life," was the Chinese answer printed on posters and later one Gavin, British subject, was bumped on the head...
...STUDY OF WAR?Admiral Sir Reginald Custance ? Houghton, Mifflin ($3.50). We detect in this book a "sea dog" barking at civilian interference in the conduct of naval affairs. (The book is more a study of naval than military warfare.) It is almost a direct protest against the confusion which the civilian injects into the military aims of warfare...