Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sara Angeline Waffle pumped on the St. Paul's organ for 35 years, gave Clara Bryant her first music lessons, retired in 1915. Last week when she was nearing her 80th birthday, she was back again, stanchly playing Just As I Am Without One Plea. This time, though, she did not have to exert herself at all because there was a new organ in St. Paul's, a Hammond Electric, inscribed: "To the Glory of God and as a tribute and memorial to Sara Angeline Waffle, organist of this parish for the first 35 years of its life...
With the signatures of more than 50, or almost every man who has seen the petition, affixed to their plea, music students yesterday called forth official recognition of their drive for enlargement of library facilities of the Music Department...
...sect whatsoever, shall ever hold or exercise any station or duty whatever in the said College; nor shall any such person ever be admitted for any purpose, or as a visitor." When Stephen Girard's French kin tried to break the will, their advocate, Daniel Webster, carried the plea to the U. S. Supreme Court, where he eloquently protested against "a cruel experiment upon these orphans to shut them up and make them the victims of a philosophical speculation. ... If the courts should set this will aside ... it would be the crowning mercy of my professional life!" Unimpressed...
...roles which she has made peculiarly her own, Bori said her goodby. First she was Violetta in La Traviata, sacrificing her happiness on the plea of the elder Germont who was Tibbett bewigged. At the end she was graceful Manon, beguiling Tenor Richard Crooks until he gave up all thought of becoming a cleric. With what appeared to be the final curtain the audience was on its feet wildly cheering. But there was more to come. Stage had been set for the garden scene in Traviata. Flowers were everywhere. While members of the company stood by respectfully, Bori received rich...
...preside temporarily over the Senate. Last week the new Senator from Louisiana made her maiden Congressional speech, not on the Senate floor but in the privacy of a Public Lands Committee hearing. In pleasant contrast to the loud histrionics of her late husband & predecessor, it was a mild little plea for the passage of a bill to enlarge Chalmette National Historical Park, on the site of the Battle of New Orleans. "Had we not won that battle," said Widow Long of the great victory which Andrew Jackson won 15 days after the War of 1812 was over, "we would today...