Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henceforth, although Germany is still bound to disarmament by the Versailles Treaty, she will not be under the harsh supervision of Allied officers. Instead League civilians will function, if and when any League-member-state shall enter a protest with the League that Germany is arming again...
Next day, in protest against the killing of two Socialists by Fascists in a tavern brawl near Loipersbach, the well and widely organized Socialist party ordered a "general strike" lasting 15 minutes. From 11:00 a. m. to 11:15 a. m. flower girls would not sell flowers, tram drivers would not drive their trams, many bank clerks banged shut their windows, and all telegraphs, telephones and radios were silent. Only taxicab drivers, irrepressible, defied the general strike order and buzzed back and forth with their fares...
This they did to protest a bill now before Parliament which would grant to a British firm monopoly for 60 years of Athenian taxicab and bus business. Should the bill pass, nearly all the taxicabs and busses now running in Athens would have to be scrapped or shipped elsewhere, for 75% are of U. S. manufacture, with Italian and French makes next, and British firms scarcely represented...
...Virgin Man", and "The Captive" have been found just too low-down for the New York Police Department to countenance. Managers of all three plays violently protest their innocence, and rejoice. Padlocking is better publicity than full page advertisements in every newspaper in New York. "The Drag", which is advertised as "the male captive" was allowed to run only two days in Bridgeport. From all accounts it contains little else but wise cracks on homo-sexuality, and is hardly on a higher level than the folk-literature in certain public places. But these two performances have made "The Drag...
...that she laced tightly, or that she wore a 'board,' as it was a tacit admission that her figure could not bear unaided the test of the Empire dress; consequently, brother's remarks would be received by his young friends with an injure! air, and a vehement protest against such a false accusation. Brother would then test their truth by dropping his handkerchief and requesting them to pick it up; if they wore a 'board' stooping would be impossible, or, at all events, very difficult. The ordeal would cover them with confusion, when the philosopher of 13 years would resume...