Word: plea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incongruity of such [mundane] decorations and invented the solemn theory that the carved grotesquery (gargoyles, dragons, animals and devils) was intended to represent evil spirits turned by divine power into stone. But it is inconceivable that any such theory can justify Mr. Cram's design. If the plea is that the pugilists and the jockeys have been turned into stained glass by an angry God, it is rather hard on sports. If the plea is that churchmen play billiards and shoot at pigeons, it is superfluous. They do, and they do many other things that ought...
...favored position of maniacs legally puts a premium on insanity, which forces the shrewdest wrongdoers to put in a plea of lunacy if they are to expect clemency. Modern nations do all in their power to reclaim the hopelessly insane criminal and at the same time punish the sane man of perverted ideals as rigorously as the prevailing idea of justice permits...
...support of the yeomanry. For our platform is this, resolved: that the shop windows of Cambridge, and Harvard Square in particular, are devoid of charm for these ladies who must spend hours looking at them awaiting their escorts. And anyone can easily see how very reasonable is our plea. We do not make it on religious or moral or intellectual grounds but simply on those of sympathy and understanding. Suppose, my friend, that you had to spend long moments in the cold and slush of Cambridge waiting for your chance to eat and dance and that you tried to find...
...course this is a reaction to Herbert Hoover's recent plea for material aid in that field. But he stressed a rather different point. His interest was, after all, in pure science. The interest of the "Post" is not. Believing with Dr. Penniman that a "university is a glorified factory" it suggests that "in giving money, prudent men desire to know in advance what knowledge it will buy what benefits it will confer." And here through the veneer the old surface shows. If the gown is to be guildered it must be a useful gown...
...move of the Republican caucus to limit senatorial investigation comes at an inauspicious time. Before a congressional election, the majority party's concealment of its record, even on the plea of economy, has a suspicious appearance which is scarcely a political asset...