Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Good Bad Woman. When a play goes so far as to annoy The New York World into leading editorial and front page protest, it must be fairly grimy. For the World, as everyone knows, is the loud speaker of anticensorship. And yet the World says of A Good Bad Woman: "Messrs. William A. Brady and Al. Woods have dug even deeper [than David Belasco] into the pile of dramatic offal...
Although some will protest against the confinement of so vast a subject within the boundaries of a course, there will be counterbalancing advantages in aiding the tyro to cover this over fresh field in one survey. Such a course can decide nothing, it can reach no conclusions; but for those who persevere into its intricacies, it will provide, from the background of historic thought, a foundation for discussion and reflection...
That others are of like mind is certain. The violent protest of the alumni at Professor Baker's resignation is a partial proof. The report of Mr. Owen Wister's committee is another--and more conclusive...
...protest against motors in Venetian gondolas received added impetus recently when the Circolo Italiano gave its support to a petition addressed to Premier Mussolini. The petition reads as follows: "To his Excellency, Benito Mussolini...
...certain that you will persist in calling the British Empire by the rosy name of "Commonwealth of Nations" and so oh and put India in it as one of the commonwealths. Well, I cannot prevent you from doing it, but I owe it to my conscience to protest against the prostitution of this word...