Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mechanics. Fifteen men who run the present House, whom the balance of the membership follows without much protest, are the following...
...première of the film, Street Angel, were invited Rome's most scintillant critics, most potent cinema tycoons. When an unsalubrious and perhaps unrecognizable Naples flickered before their eyes, they whistled and hissed in protest. One critic shouted "Only the fact that we are guests prevents this theatre from being inundated under a Niagara of violent indignation." The theatre therefore was saved but the Board of Censors was doomed a few hours hence...
...honest enough to admit it. There was no excuse for the first printing of the cheap anti-Catholic verses by which the Sister was offended; your inclusion of them only served to give them wider circulation. When you reprinted them under the Sister's letter of protest, you marked yourselves as either boors or sympathizers with those verses. Then when another lady writes you to reprove you for your second exhibition of bad taste, you "crawl." There is no other term for it. You defended yourself by pretending you expected the publication of such trash would lead others...
...channel swimming scene ("Oh, pul-lease!"), or her deceptively wistful "I'm World Weary," or the Paris in 1890 scene ("They call me La Flamme because I make men mad"), she is never allowed to leave the stage until her audience is too weak to protest...
...Rudolph did not retire. What held him back was another battle, again with his father. Father Claus, standing at his open window had sneezed, once, twice, three times. To the gas company whose plant was pouring smoke over San Francisco Father Claus sent a vigorous protest. He started a gas company of his own, deliberately set out to drive the San Francisco Gas Co. to the rocks. But Son Rudolph, on the verge of retirement, was a stockholder in the besieged company. When the stock fell, he gained control, cut out $300,000 waste, whipped Father Claus a second time...