Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late elder brother]." explained Defense Lawyer Lloyd Jones. "Indeed I believe she was imprisoned in India during the visit of King George, then Prince of Wales, in 1906, quite possibly because she expressed her views regarding the Duke of Clarence. ... I have advised my client to plead guilty...
...bill providing an extra excise on wines & liquors imported from War debt defaulting nations. Leaping at the chance to sound off on their pet hate, debt defaulters. Senate Democrats and Republicans alike began to line up solidly behind the Clark amendment. In vain did Mississippi's Harrison plead with his colleagues not to injure the President...
...succeed until she changes places with a Parisian music-hall star who used to be her partner in a sister-act. Changing the color of her hair and assuming a French accent, Constance Bennett nearly seduces her husband away from herself. Good shot: Franchot Tone promising Tullio Carminati to plead his case with Constance Bennett, then uneasily making love on his own behalf while Carminati plays rapturously on the piano. Good tunes: ''Coffee in the Morning, Kisses in the Night,'' "Boulevard of Broken Dreams...
...Would that make any difference as to your guilt or innocence?" "My rights," Finney insisted, "have been disregarded in having me plead guilty under an agreement that was not kept...
...this by unnaturally hollowed and skull-like faces, by hands which are bony in spite of their muscularity; the quality and effect of this she draws into the bent bodies, the downcast eyes, the melancholy despair and hopeless resignation of her subjects. With compassion she makes ink and paper plead for her sufferers; when he looks at the prints the jaunty, smart, well clad and fed spectator feels the same compassion more sharply than if he saw the original subjects (though not more sharply than he ought); that...