Word: plea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...influence of the universities on modern literature--that is the subject of a trenchant and suggestive article in the current Nation. The immediate source for the topic was the Yale Alumni Weekly's recent plea for "honest criticism" from faculty members, that being, according to the Weekly, "the only cure" for the innumerable "sloppy and maudlin" books foisted annually on the public. The Nation agrees but points out that even at Yale faculty members was prolix with superlatives and too often lose touch with the active world of letters. Time was, recalls the magazine, when a professor of English...
...Claudel thus made clear that Ambassador Herrick would have to explain to France why U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg has rejected the Franco-U. S. peace pact which Mr. Herrick himself brought back from France before he collapsed in health (TIME, July 4). In a stirring plea for this pact Poet-Statesman Claudel cried: "Casual thinking people, speaking of the proposal, have said: 'It is nothing but words. . . . Can you stop war with paper?' . . . Well, words are great things. It is written: 'In the beginning was the Word. . . . I remember, too, some general declarations...
...CRIMSON, after he had spoken to a capacity audience at ford Hall on "Crime and Its Treatment". "He is a murderer, a bootlegger, and in every way a vicious criminal. He should have been electrocuted without any question, and not have been allowed to escape the chair under the plea of insanity...
...would be not only to look into the mouth of a gift horse, but to insist on an X-ray of the molars. But the swimming-pool gymnasium situation is so typical of the exception that this comment is offered with no stinting of gratitude, but rather as a plea for an earlier availability of a generous gift...
...Though she can comprehend the nature and consequences of her acts, her will is powerless to deter her from courses of conduct that have their roots in her emotional abnormality," glibly states her lawyer in his plea for elemency. It is said that the defence of young Hickman will be virtually the same, in his instance the abnormality being sadism. These two cases, together with the shocking acquittal of bootlegger Remus, seem a perfect justification of Governor Smith's plan for a board of criminologists and psychiatrists who might make disposal of all convicted criminals. It would remove the perplexing...