Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington last week the Board of Tax Appeals denied the plea of Actress Lenore Ulric that she be allowed to deduct $11,130 from her taxable income for the years 1927-28. Wooly-headed Miss Ulric, celebrated for her ability to create furor onstage, was quoted as saying that she had spent this sum for strictly business purposes, "entertaining newspaper critics and others...
...year sentences for parading naked, Peter Verigin II was jailed for perjury. He hoped to be sent to Mexico (whose government would permit 10,000 Doukhobors to settle there) but Canada preferred to return him to the land of his birth. Canadian officials called his death-talk the usual plea of deportable persons, said the U. S. S. R. had given permission for his return...
...Twas like a melodious plea...
Many centuries ago, runs a Chinese legend, a lion wandering through a forest spied a monkey and fell in love with her. Despairing at the discrepancy in their sizes, he prayed his lord & protector Buddha that he might be dwarfed. Buddha answered the plea of the lion, who promptly married his monkey-love. . . . One result of that storied union was to be seen last week in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel...
...book that Mary Howard is in the process of finishing, the wife understands the plea of the other woman in love with her husband and blandly surrenders him, but when the ladies really meet under unusual circumstances in the country Claire Woodruff (Selena Royale) is very unsympathetic, and even the husband (Herbert Rawlinson) when confronted by both wife and mistress, male like chooses his wife, thereby being deserted by both. This is what Miss Crothers attempts to draw through three acts...