Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know who did this. . . ." The House laughed. If ever the Navy had a harsh critic, he is James V. McClintic. It was voted to correct the record to show that Mr. McClintic was not responsible for some jokester's practical prank. Alone among the legislators to protest that the House should investigate such time-wasting buffoonery, was Thomas Lindsay Blanton, Texas Democrat. No investigation was ordered...
...periphery of the globe stand actors wearing lifelike mask-faces of Emperor Franz Josef, Tsar Nicholas II and Kaiser Wilhelm II. As the globe turns, all three call upon God to grant victory to their respective armies; but when the dummy makes no sign, each monarch begins loudly to protest his own complete innocence of War-guilt...
...Bucharest the U. S. Minister, kindly, astute William Smith Culbertson, instantly filed a stiff, uncompromising note of protest with the Rumanian Foreign Office and announced that unless positively asured of Mr. Keller's safety he would go himself to Oradia Mare. The Rumanian Government, impressed, dispatched a "special investigator" to watch over U.S. Citizen Keller...
Students who feel the reins of faculty supervision somewhat harsh and undemocratic, who stand in dread of the possibility of compulsory chapel, and who protest loudly at the meager allowance of cuts afforded by the department heads, might sleep a little easier and enjoy life a little more thoroughly after reading a few excerpts from the Harvard College regulations of 1734. Some of the most interesting--when viewed from this distant perspective--follow...
...White Cargo. After three of the characters had been clumsily and blatantly "killed" on the stage, famed Czechoslovakian Playwright Antoine Trych rose from his orchestra seat, drew an automatic pistol, and fired two shots over the heads of the actors. Amid the ensuing deadly hush, he cried: "I protest at the showing of this play in Prague! . . . Many Czechoslovaks, myself included, could have written a better!" Although some who sat near to Playwright Trych applauded his patriotic words, most of the audience took him to be a madman, rushed hugger-mugger from the playhouse...