Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Later in the morning the dean of the Peiping diplomatic corps, elderly Senor Justo Garrido y Cisneros, Minister of Spain, called at the Japanese Legation. He carried a lively protest from another still more important legation objecting to the continuance of "provocatively dangerous" military activity. The whole thing looked suspiciously like an attempt to provoke an Incident, as had been successfully done in Shanghai...
...Jacques Le Brun, skipper of a French monotype sloop, protested to the judges that an Italian boat had failed to give him sea room at the start of the ninth race. The judges disallowed the protest, disqualified Skipper Le Brun. He took his claim to the Olympic Protest Committee which differed with the judges, awarded Skipper Le Brun a first place that gave France the monotype championship instead of Holland, 87 points to 85. Sweden won the six-metre boat championship. The other yachting championships went to two U. S. boats-Gilbert Gray's star sloop Jupiter, Owen Churchill...
...Last year in the same museum a little Dutchman axed Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson (TIME, March 2, 1931). On March 10, 1914 May Richardson, famed suffraget, pulled a hatchet from her muff and slashed Velazquez's Venus and Cupid in London's National Gallery as a protest against the jailing of Emmeline Pankhurst. Until 1845 the beautiful Portland Vase in the British Museum was crackless. Then one William Lloyd suddenly dashed it from its pedestal, shattered it into pieces which were painstakingly fastened together again. In 1927 one George Latreille fell on LeNain...
When modernity obtrudes upon religious art, pious folk usually protest. Last week a startlingly modern piece of church art was unveiled in old Chatham, Mass., on Cape Cod. Engrossed mainly with fish and summer visitors, Chatham is respectable and religious. Most people might suppose that it would have no truck with a picture of Jesus Christ, beardless, garbed in corduroys and grey shirt without even a necktie, preaching from a dory manned by two Cape Codders. Such a supposition would be in error. Deeply, reverently pleased were the Chathamites who gathered last week in Old Congregational Church, founded...
...over and blocked him. Chief Judge Arthur Holtz of Germany finally announced that "No. 125 [Lehtinen] did not wilfully interfere with No. 433 [Hill] . . . ," gave the race to Lehtinen. For the first time during the Games, the stadium crowd set up a mighty BOO ! Ralph Hill filed no official protest...