Word: plea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's chair is a wicker-backed swiveller. A Presidential nod seats the Job-Seeker in a green leather armchair, edged close to the desk. He begins his earnest plea. . . . The Presidential eye reverts occasionally to an ornate gilt clock under glass upon the mantel. Every tick is treasured. The Job-Seeker rises...
...itself hard put to preserve its reputation. A symphony orchestra is the greatest of luxuries. Its existence depends always on the beneficence of a patron or a group of patrons. Again, last week, the Boston Symphony felt sorely its annual deficit complaint, and printed in the program books a plea for funds. The Boston Symphony's prospective deficit this year is $134,000 as against $87,000 last year...
...contribution to Hone's Table Book, $48,000; Pope's Essay on Man, $29,000; Edgar Allan Poe's letter to Mrs. B., $19,500; Swift's Gulliver's Travels, $17,000. Let no brisk, efficient young housewife entirely disregard a grandparent's plea not to throw away old books. In Manhattan last week it was discovered that a pile of old books hastily sold (or, perhaps, cunningly bought) contained a first-edition copy of Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders of the Rue Morgue-the third such copy known to exist...
...railroad consolidation. Both the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis (the "Big Four") and the Michigan Central have long been New York Central subsidiaries, New York Central owning more than 90% of their stocks. They have been operated as separate units, however, and the New York Central based its consolidation plea on the argument that "the necessity for protecting the earnings of each carrier" prevented complete unification and coordination of the system. A. H. Harris, chairman of the executive committee of the New York Central said that negotiations for the purchase of the six short lines would be immediately begun...
...idea the Council advanced a plan of its own for the new building program. But this could only be a corollary to the project of the Yard, and as long as the new Houses are not arranged so as to disrupt the area entirely as an entity the undergraduate plea will be answered. If the idea behind the whole House plan prevents a symmetrical arrangement and a harmonious architecture, there is no definite reason why one unit should stare placidly across a vista at its exact reproduction. As long as the site favor a development which lacks the crowded discord...