Word: plea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this country than any other single cause. In the long run the people can be trusted to vote right, as Jefferson maintained,--if their, interest is first aroused. But therein lies the difficulty. In nine cases out of ten, failure to vote can only be charged to laziness. The plea of "disinterestedness" is a ready excuse for all who are too lazy to inform themselves enough to vote intelligently, and an unintelligent vote is worse than no vote...
...continues to be scored in the most illogical way: 15-love, 30-love, 40-love. Why not 1, 2, 3? As a matter of fact this question was asked some years ago in the Middle West, according to "Placement's" column in the "New York Evening Post", and a plea made for the recognition of a simpler method of scoring in order not to hinder the popularity of the game. But the ancient system continues, and the popularity of tennis was never greater. Apparently there is nothing left for the curious but to discover how this 15, 30, 40 combination...
...Come and lead us" cry divers Republican Senators and Representatives; "Come and save us! We are unpopular; you are popular." Such is the plea to President Harding from those who realize that political punishment may be pending next fall. Scoring "their master's voice" when a recommendation was made to cut taxes and other wise advice was quietly offered, the G. O. P. men now turn to him when the long and unsatisfactory record of this Congress has stamped its unfavorable impression upon the public mind; probably it is too late to repent. Admittedly it is against political reason...
...running. His four years of education were four years lost as far as experience in the campaign were concerned, and his training taught him nothing that helped to overcome the handicap. The ubiquitous, not-of-this-world, innocence of the college man plunging into business called forth the famous plea of Horace Greeley that fate should spare him from such "horned cattle" as the college graduate...
...this year has been Mr. Frank Vanderlip, who with his wife has been making a study of European conditions. Mr. Vanderlip spoke in chapel in the subject of internationalism in a discriminating and searching manner which immediately won the respect of the student body. Mrs. Vanderlip made a short plea for the education of women in then Near East...