Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public in England, where she is greatly beloved as your article states. I am a great admirer of TIME and know that it does not intend an affront but in England the epithet used will have a different implication and will have an injurious result. I have received a protest from Miss Field's manager in England and as the producer of her pictures I appeal to your sense of fairness to right the harm done her in this matter...
...Yard cops prepared for a riot and Holworthy inmates hoisted a red flag in protest, 1000 Y.P.R.U. members swarmed into the Yard yesterday afternoon for a tour of historic points conducted by the Divinity School...
...subscriber I protest against placing on your cover the picture of young Roosevelt, the most obnoxious example of nepotism in my memory...
...Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls, from Balfe's opera, The Bohemian Girl. The skies did not fall, but ever since then it has been good publicity: 1) to jazz a well-known classic or dead-serious folksong, 2) to goad a few naive busybodies into protest, 3) to pretend that the incident is splitting the world of music into two opposing camps of foamy-lipped zealots...
...composer a pernicious Kulturbolschewist (cultural Bolshevist). Despite a plea by Germany's star conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had introduced the work at a Berlin concert, Composer Hindemith's compositions were officially banned from German concert programs. Conductor Furtwängler resigned his job in protest, cried: "It is a crime to attempt to defame and drive him [Hindemith] from Germany, since none of the younger generation has done more than he for the recognition of German music throughout the world." Since then, Kulturbolschewist Hindemith, though he still lives in suburban Berlin, has had to go abroad...