Word: plea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George E. MacLean, retiring director of the London office of the American University Union in Europe, made a plea for an extended exchange system whereby Americans may go abroad and Europeans come here. Before the War, Dr. MacLean said, few Europeans would have thought it worth while to come, but now it is different...
Jack Dempsey: It was reported that my father, Hyrum Dempsey, of Salt Lake City, was fined $50 after entering a plea of guilty to a charge of having mixed highballs with liquor from a pocket flask...
...speaker closed with a plea for the revision of accepted ideals. He compared the beauty of the Eastern conception of happiness as a condition of the mind and of the soul with the Western ideal of happiness in external things. "It is the universal view of the West that Western civilization in superior to Eastern. Why cannot people consider the possibility of being mistaken in their attitudes and views, and begin to look at things in a fresh with an open mind for beauty, inspiration...
...ever there was a downright plea to the sympathies, the passions, the prejudices of the jury for six hours or more, you have heard it here . . . And that story about the ring. "Why, Munchausen was beaten by hundreds of miles by the man who made up that story...
Scranton, Pa. Before one of the biggest meetings that he had ad- dressed in the U. S., and to an audience composed almost entirely of Welsh people, Mr. George paid a sterling tribute to Mr. Charles M. Schwab and voiced a plea for " help, help, help." Of Mr. Schwab, Mr. George said: "He was the first man to come to our aid in organizing a more ample and efficient supply of munitions. The Kaiser offered him three times the price his great plant was worth in an effort to rob us of his support, but he stood by the Allies...