Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Metropolitan Opera Company was begging for its life last winter its most eloquent plea was the stirring performances given in the Wagner Matinee Cycle. Not since the War had New York heard such German opera. Most of the Met's other performances came nowhere near paying their own way but the Wagner matinees sold out to the doors. This week a new Wagner cycle begins with subscriptions topping last year's. This week's opera is Tannhauser. Next week The Ring of the Nibelung begins, the four operas to be given at weekly intervals through...
Tartly at the British Treasury next day a spokesman for Chancellor Chamberlain spiked the MacDonald plea for prompt stabilization, suggested that the Prime Minister had been talking through...
That was not the first time Roxbury had turned James Conant down. Only an indignant plea by his mother got him admitted as a student in 1906. He had flunked his entrance examination in spelling. No infant prodigy, he did not learn to read until he was seven. But soon after that he was brewing malodorous compounds in a makeshift laboratory labeled: "Only two persons allowable in shop at a time." He insisted on going to Roxbury, against his parents' vote for more fashionable Milton, because it had a friendly science master named Newton Henry Black. Master Black...
...motion that the Chamber appoint a commission to investigate L'Affaire Starisky was defeated 360 to 229-the Socialists, who had been verbally lashing the Government, supporting it with their votes. To seal this victory the Left's great champion, M. Edouard Herriot, made a booming plea for a vote of entire confidence in the Government's conduct, put it through 376-10-205, after which the Chamber adjourned. Said Mme Stavisky, after attending the funeral of her husband who was buried with dispatch in Chamonix: "I don't know whether my husband shot himself...
Refusing to allow the plea of guilty to be withdrawn, Judge Heinz sentenced Ronald Finney to from 31 to 635 years in jail. Like his father he announced he would appeal...