Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many children have wept at the sight of poor little Oliver Twist dragging his emaciated shanks across Dickens's pages to plead for more soup! Or have wailed to see Jackle Coogan doing the same across the silver shest. The modern Oliver asks once and if the soup is not forthcoming, he lets drive at the cook with the soup bowl. At Yale there are five hundred modern Oliver in the freshman class. For some time they have been writing polite protests against the rule that freshmen must eat at the Commons, along with complaints about the quality and quantity...
...Moscow government has not yet made any statement as to how it will spend the credits accruing from the huge sales of grain. No country has reported a Bolshevik order for agricultural tools or for cattle, which would be the only justification that they could plead for depriving their unfortunate citizens of their daily bread. On the other hand, the Bolsheviki are very busy talking about war and explaining to the world the significance of the Ruhr, Memel, Vilna. At the fifth anniversary of the formation of the Red Army, Trotzky, Minister of War, said: "We want peace, but nobody...
...counter pulsations in the atmosphere to necessitate a delicate focussing of the outer ear toward the lecturer as a sunflower to the sun, or else induces that semi-sonambulent state of psychological detachment from the boredom of the immediate intellectual rationing. The dodge for those who care is to plead astigmatism or a punctured tympanum; for those who don't, some A's or B's notes or a conference with the Widow...
...delegates at Washington who are blocking these proposals cannot plead ignorance of the consequences--similar ones have been only too obvious in the past. Without an immediate increase in revenue, China cannot hope to have peace within her borders. The Central government needs money to as set its authority over rebellious Tuchuns (Provincial Governors), and brings under her wing all military organizations. If, on the other hand, the present situation of the Central Government having to cater to these organizations for revenue, continues, then one may look for a continuance of semi-anarchical conditions...
...many of them fugitives from the iron laws of their homelands. Now that we are free and prosperous and, above all, conventionalized, should we forget what is due those who are attempting to emulate our example? Even a Hindu from India, the play shows, has a moral right to plead for the liberty of that Empire, to educate himself to fight his battle for freedom...