Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Largest and in every way most conspicuous of the minor characters was Professor Merriman as Mistress Quince the only female part in the play: Looking like a combination of a windmill and Alice's white rabbit, he squeaked incessantly "Jesu Jesu!" desending only from the treble to protest vehement that he "never had been called woman in this House before...
...Greaser" Protest...
Sirs: ... [I wish] to support the implied protest of Mr. Gutierrez concerning the use of the term "greaser" in your magazine [TIME, Nov. 12], The majority of Spanish American people in New Mexico are farmers and herders, and therefore are in general poor. By applying the term "greaser" to them you apply it to a large minority, if not to a majority of the population of the State. To these people the term is obnoxious as is "nigger" to a Negro, and with equal reason, since it is an expression of ignorant racial contempt on the part of the self...
...second place, the new management reduced the salaries of the students working on the concessions and increased the working hours. Only when a strenuous protest was made, were salaries raised to a reasonable figure. Students were made to account for each cent taken in, with a dock in pay as the penalty. Under the old system a deduction from profits was the penalty...
...proof? The War! ... In the War religion lost its purity and lost its authority. It joined forces with the spirit of the world. The one victim of defeat was religion. And that religion was defeated is apparent in our time. For it lifts up its voice, but only to protest. It cannot command...