Word: plead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austria just beginning to feel the effects of its Industrial Revolution already well under way. As a young man, he studied law, receiving the degree of J.U.D., at at the age of twenty-four, and immediately thereafter, more or less on a lark, went to Cairo to plead cases among the Africans in King Edward's newly created civil courts. Interested in the intense opposition put up by the Egyptians to the vigorous reorganization of their political and economic life being affected by the monocled, white-jacketed bureaucracy of the Foreign Office, but at the same time incapacitated...
...Austria just beginning to feel the effects of its Industrial Revolution already well under way. As a young man, he studied law, receiving the degree of J.U.D., at at the age of twenty-four, and immediately thereafter, more or less on a lark, went to Cairo to plead cases among the Africans in King Edward's newly created civil courts. Interested in the intense opposition put up by the Egyptians to the vigorous reorganization of their political and economic life being affected by the monocled, white-jacketed bureaucracy of the Foreign Office, but at the same time incapacitated...
...called to plead after the prosecution's only witness for the day testified that Ocker had spoken disparagingly and insubordinately to his superior officer, Lient, Col. Henry A. Clagett...
...plead guilty," gulped Prisoner Gordon-Haddon, "under extreme provocation...
...Paris Correctional Court. A student of medieval life, Baker Littière had locked his frisky wife into a belt of steel and velvet modelled on those known to all U. S. tourists in the Musée de Cluny.* Strangely, Mme Littière went to court to plead in her husband's behalf, extenuate his infibulation...