Word: plead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This defendant . . . knew the basic principles of law. She knew right from wrong. She cannot plead ignorance. There has been no appeal made for her because she is a woman...
Characteristically the Chancellor ignored the warning of his doctor's thermometer, and rushed impetuously into the verbal fray. He found the Laborites preparing to attack his new tax on petroleum fuels from a shrewd angle. They were about to plead with fervor the cause of the-poor-man-with-a-kerosene-lamp...
Than John W. Davis there has seldom been a more aristocratic Democratic nominee for President. Than John W. Davis few men have ever received a longer social invitation by telegraph. It came to his Manhattan home last week from Cincinnati, Ohio, whither he was planning to go to plead a lawsuit. It contained some 400 words, among which were...
...York, Pa., one Joseph Hantz, bum, was arrested for trespassing. Hearing of this arrest, L. D. Hantz, Assemblyman, no relative but proud of the name of Hantz, went to court to plead for Joseph. When his pleas were successful, proud Assemblyman Hantz gave slouching Bum Hantz the price of his fine together with a oneway ticket to Washington...
...bold, black haired flyer who sat beside Commander Byrd in his flight to France, snuggled his plane too close to his native Naugatuck, and was the first man booked in Connecticut police stations for violating the aviation law which prohibits flying below 2,000 feet over population centres. Acosta plead guilty, apologized, went to jail. Meanwhile sheriffs hurried up from New Jersey to complicate his chancery. Warrants were out for his arrest. The Splitdorf Electric Co. complained that Acosta owed $4,445 for electrical equipment in a plane with which he planned to try for the endurance record. A sheriff...