Word: plea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such, that disturbs to the point of causes many who believe as much and more in honesty than they do in amateurism, and who give to the Bolshevik or unsound thinking laborer, either the ammunition for argument for compensation for lost wage, or a real reason for his plea that if these amateur stars are 'getting their's' in some way that he should get his in the only way which seems to him feasible. To the credit of the working man be it said that he is at least honest in the statement of his motives...
...baker dies, true to a fanaticism for cremation. His deathbed plea cleanses Karl and he pushes the Crucifixion to an immense conclusion, only to have it denounced as a plagiarism on the day's jazz. Then more irony, the War?and Karl home after it with the sorrows of Germany in his pale face, needing convalescence like the world...
Whereupon Malcolm L. Stephenson, editor of the Trinity Tripod, dared to oppose the suggestion of the dean and made what proved to be the fatal mistake of writing his plea in language that has just the slightest trace of Menckenesque presumption. "We have always thought of college as a spawning ground for individuals," he wrote, "for wrote, "for men who think. Better a radical with a beard and a bomb than a type--a goose-stepper--a man without brains enough or courage enough to declare himself...
...Plea. The proper time having arrived, Colonel Moreland asked how Colonel Mitchell pleaded to each of the eight charges and two other questions as to how he pleaded in general. In a detached monotone Colonel Mitchell replied...
...only natural that Charles E. Piez, President of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association, recently selected Mr. Borah as a fitting person to whom a plea might be made for debt-leniency to France. Last week Mr. Borah replied to Mr. Piez, presenting with his usual eloquence, the standpoint of the 100-cents-on-the-dollar debt collectors...