Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Should our protest go unheeded, we request that you refer to these catastrophes in the Thanksgiving Proclamation. Your action in this matter will be a sufficient reply to our request...
...condemnation of the Victorians, especially for their sexual obscurantism, and a condemnation of the War. They are not well linked, except that both contribute to the catastrophe, and the second is far stronger. The Victorians are satirized with a savagery that defeats itself, for the reader begins to protest that it must be overdone. The tone of these chapters is like one of George's own remarks, thus reported: " 'Now, look at these simian bipeds,' George pursued, pointing to an inoffensive pair of lovers . . . 'more foul, more deadly, more incestuously blood-lustful . . .!' " Throughout the early chapters Author Aldington seems...
...protest which goes up as a result of the remarkable punishment meted out by the college to the offenders seems very well justified. Certainly not all those evicted could have been interested in the hidden cache, but the college has decided that all shall share a similar fate. Just at the time when the rugs have been laid on the floor and the furniture has begun to assume a natural air--then does the iron hand of the law drive the exiles out into the world to seek a new lodging. While the affair makes admirable copy for metropolitan newspapers...
Finally impatient, the President picked his own man, Wilbur N. Hughes, once identified with the Bean group. Awful to hear were the wails of protest from Committeeman Skipper et al. Last month Dr. Fred E. Britten, secretary of the State Republican organization, wrote President Hoover a rebellious letter in which he said: "In the name of God and for the sake of righteousness as well as the economic prosperity of Florida I plead with you to withdraw this nomination." He threatened dire reprisals unless the President appointed men chosen by Mr. Skipper...
...orate, faced the Government with 55 interpellations. Testily M. Briand refused to be interpellated, sought to force the Chamber to begin debating the budget, perhaps his one chance to keep the Deputies harmlessly preoccupied for some weeks. A score of Deputies of nearly as many parties rose to protest. Even blind Deputy Scapins was up in arms. Finally one Jean Montigny, obscure Radical Socialist demanded a gen eral debate on the Hague agreements, Young Plan and Rhineland evacuation...