Word: entreated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lady in your household is ever compelled to hold a press conference, entreat her not to condescend to newspaper women.-Columnist Helen Essary in the Washington Times-Herald (in an open letter "to the next British Ambassador...
...officer to dismayed General Chen: "Despite the danger of having my heart dissected and my eyes gouged out by you, I hereby dare to send you this final word of my loyalty. Alas, as I hold my pen, how fast the tears stream down my cheeks. I respectfully entreat you to carefully examine my words and forgive my impoliteness." What had brought Chen's officers to this impoliteness was the arrival in Chen's camp of some 200 Japanese military advisers and airplane pilots...
...delegate chanced on a lost copy of the propositions then pending before the Convention, quickly turned it over to the presiding officer, General George Washington. At the close of the day's session that hot-tempered hero up-rose before the delegates, sternly declared: "I must entreat gentlemen to be more careful, lest our transactions get into the newspapers and disturb the public repose by premature speculations. I know not whose paper it is, but there it is, let him who owns it take...
...Biblical times the great Egyptian locust plague was dispersed when Pharaoh persuaded Moses to entreat the Lord of Hosts (Exodus...