Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...essential note in Spoon River was one of protest, of radical nationalism, of bitter resentment that U. S. poets and artists were so consistently abused and neglected by the country at large. In subsequent volumes Masters' poems, characterized by long speculations on vague concepts of life, nature, the soul, contrasted oddly with the concise, concrete images of recognizable human fates that had been the distinction of Spoon River...
Opinion among the faculty yesterday differed. A representative group reached by telephone claimed that they would sign the bill, but do it under protest. A few came out flatly against the oath. Wilbur C. Abbott, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, stated that all the members of the History Department to whom he had spoken would sign the bill under compulsion, but that there would probably be a petition from the Department against...
...James O'Connor Jr. to whom you referred is a lawyer occupying an enviable position at the Bar of Louisiana. He was elected Public Service Commissioner by the aid of the lamented Huey Long. He is the son of a former judge and former Congressman of Louisiana. ... I respectfully protest against what may have been an unfortunate inadvertence on the part of the announcer of "The March of TIME," which I understand is sponsored by your valuable magazine...
...Arriving in Manhattan from Moscow's recent Communist Congress, Earl Browder, No. 1 U. S. Red, said last week: "President Roosevelt's protest to the Soviet Government about the activities of the Congress was one of the most stupid things he could have done. . . . Roosevelt is not a Fascist but if he doesn't oppose Fascism the Fascists will eat him up. ... All of the bloc gathered around Roosevelt is headed toward Fascism...
Reconciled after violent protest to the requirement that he remove his shoes when he makes his projected goodwill call on Japan's Emperor Hirohito, Vice President John Nance Garner worried: "They tell me William Howard Taft and William Jennings Bryan got their socks mixed and made some kind of social error on account of their feet not matching. I'll have to be sort of careful...