Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been awarded the Pulitzer Prize by a distinguished jury, and as it has been universally acclaimed as a play of literary and dramatic significance, we, the undersigned, believe that it is of cultural importance, and that we should not be denied the opportunity of seeing it. Therefore we protest against the banning of "Strange Interlude" in Boston, and we unreservedly endorse its production in Quincy...
...This post is not to be confused with that of Solicitor for the Commission, now filled by Charles A. Russell, whose recent opinion that power company stocks are being watered to make their eventual recapture by the Government unduly expensive (TIME, Sept. 2), has aroused a storm of protest among public utilitarians...
...ground, the Doukhobors wear heavy clothes. When a cold wind sweeps down from Alaska they often stalk about stark naked. They live on a communistic plan, denounce capital and marriage laws, are called "Dukes" and "Duchesses," eat no meat, drink no wine, touch no tobacco. Their prime weapon of protest is going naked. Their name means "Spirit Fighters...
...unrest at Nelson began when one Peter Wolosov, leader of an inner fanatical sect, "The Sons of Freedom," was imprisoned for burning schoolhouses. Comrades rallied in naked protest shouting "Jesus would not carry...
Observers knew to a virtual certainty that the Trondhjemmers' protest will be in vain. The reactionary country folk of Norway whose representatives dominate the Storthing are bent on restoring the almost prehistoric names by which Norwegian cities were called before the fatherland came under the rule of Danish and later Swedish kings, from which it emerged independent only in 1905. Stubborn zealots, the Norwegian rival Deputies changed the Danish name of Norway's capital, "Christiania," to "Oslo." Having changed Trondhjem to Nidaros, they now contemplate changing the names of two of Norway's major ports, Bergen and Christiansund. to "Bj?...