Word: plea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent textile strike announced the principle of "when your boss needs you most,--strike. Content is a bad sign, never be contented. Strike whenever good times appear and the capitalists will have to pay you." Even granting that such assertions are not characteristic of all unionism, Mr. Gompers' plea that labor be saved from the courts might almost be paraphrased into "saving the cities from labor." To arouse men to rioting and then to try to restrain them, is rather like a small boy who skates as close as possible to a danger sign and then says...
...carries on as before. The 'News', in the same number with its editorial on the Phi Beta Kappa matter, prints front page articles on the election of a wrestling captain and the progress of the crews on the Housatonic (this last was reported slow). There is also a traditional plea for the existence of the academic grass as against informal baseball...
...shooting of the witch-doctor with the silver bullet which negro had intended to save for himself. The catastrophe is powerful in its contrasting mildness; the death of the emperor offstage, and the subsequent appearance of his body, verges dangerously on the anticlimactic. Perhaps it will sound like a plea of the sensational, but one cannot suppress a feeling that the play would end more effectively when the natives fire the fatal shots...
General Pershing's plea to stop further reductions in the size of the regular army, made clear in a vigorous, straightforward statement the army's problem and should go far towards a general realization of what the army is up against. The proposals now before the House Appropriations Committee, somewhat overlooked in the news from Washington, favor a further reduction of the standing army to 115,000 men and 11,000 officers,--this in the name of "necessary economizing". Under the plan now in operation the army is already being reduced to 150,000 men and 13,000 officers...
...oath binding if a man solemnly swears, but neglects the formality of holding up his right hand? With such a defense, a prisoner in a New Hampshire court is pleading not guilty to a charge of perjury, and the court has been so overcome by the strangeness of the plea, that the case has had to be continued. This leads one naturally to ask: what would happen if a man had his fingers crossed all the time, or perhaps his tongue in his cheek, or forgot to cross his heart and say, "Hope to die," after the ceremony? The whole...