Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pale with fury, Herr Braun served notice that he will again appeal to the Supreme Court...
After seven long years of watching French politics from Belgium, the Bourbon Pretender to the throne of France, six-foot, curly-whiskered Monseigneur Le Duc de Guise, decided last week that things were at last going badly enough for him to issue his first public appeal for restoration...
Evidence of this fatal hat-wearing 22 years ago was handed to the Council, which forthwith decided that Count de Romanones' lands are confiscate. He can and undoubtedly will appeal to the Cabinet of Premier Azana, may win leniency because of his reputation for having opposed the Dictatorship of the late, hated General Primo de Rivera...
...looked more at first glance like a provincial grocer than a leader of men." Later when the Agent knew Lenin better, he was impressed by the man's will-power, his relentless determination, his lack of emotion. Lockhart found that Lenin was not to be moved by any appeal to his vanity. Trotsky seemed to be the very antithesis of the leader for: "Trotsky's vanity could be played upon with some success...
...injection of at least a modicum of academic blood into the political system has been generally recognized, and seems to be, for the nonce, on the way to attention from those who hold the power of appointment. Such a measure as Senator Nicholson's represents a tawdry appeal to mass prejudice and will probably be defeated; if it is not, the movement toward an enlightened bureaucracy in Massachusetts will be set back many years...