Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less precarious times, the role she is given in That Certain Woman might conceivably have evoked renewed protest from her, not that it lacks scope for her remarkable dramatic range, but because it heaps tragedy upon her with Sophoclean relentlessness, and because its wearying, buskined tread cannot pretend to vie with her more smartly-stepping 1937 successes, Marked Woman and Kid Galahad...
...hour flying visit to the Party Congress-hitherto boycotted by democratic diplomats. Noticeable absentees last week, however, were the Papal Nuncio, the Soviet Ambassador. Conspicuous among the foreign envoys were sad-eyed Prentiss Bailey Gilbert, U. S. Charge d'Affaires (who attended over the vehement protest of his chief, vacationing Ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd), who is expected soon to resign, Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson, British Ambassador, and André François-Poncet, French Ambassador...
...William S. Gubelmann's square-rigger Seven Seas; by arriving in Hamilton harbor 55 sec. ahead after racing 10 days, 1 hour, 57 sec. The Seven Seas challenged on the ground that the Joseph Conrad crossed the finish line under drive of an auxiliary engine, later withdrew its protest...
...grandfather's pet pastime at dinner was to pick news stories apart. "Mrs. John Jones has been ill for some time" he would read. "What the devil does some time mean?" was his protest. "A week or a year...
Professed purpose of the peasant action was to protest the "dictatorial and bureaucratic system," to inaugurate a genuine democracy. Its immediate purpose was to force Marshal Smigly-Rydz to bring back to Poland Wincenty Witos, founder and head of the Peasant Party. Witos, who fled to Czechoslovakia to escape sentence inflicted by Pilsudski's courts for opposition in the 1930 election, is the peasants' living martyr...