Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lemming-like urge to go nightclubbing. The way is usually beset by obstacles and hazards: doormen dressed like admirals, headwaiters with manners like Gestapo agents, blonde Mata Haris of the checkroom, silk ropes, and other frustrated pilgrims awaiting admission. But the lemmings are not discouraged; they bribe, push and plead for the privilege of paying $8 to $125 a couple for dining, drinking blended rye at saucer-sized tables, breathing smoke and carbon monoxide and getting their eardrums clouted by a boogie woogie beat...
...Labrador to Florida, from the shores of the Atlantic to the remotest lakes of upper Canada." Now France's imperial glory was gone, and her aging but active special emissary, only ten months out of a Nazi prison, had come to the shores of the former colony to plead for aid. "Man," Blum read, "always goes from grief to grief...
...labor. To compose his bristling editorials, he stomps around the office, dictating at the top of his voice to a stenographer across the room. His staffers can't trust him to keep a confidential memo out of print, and take massive doses of his abuse. They had to plead for years to get "desks big enough for three-syllable words." But they never get fired...
...second concern goes deeper. It is the practice, lately initiated in the official Catholic press in this country, of vilifying, in a most unworthy way, the Protestant Reformation and its great leaders, particularly Martin Luther and John Calvin. I plead with the distinguished scholars of the Roman Catholic Church in America that they frown upon every journalistic attempt to distort historical truth for ecclesiastical ends...
...Perfect Figaro. These vocal varieties call for a versatile voice. Danny has it. It is a high baritone, with a two-octave range. He can impersonate an Italian baritone, bleat like an Irish tenor, mimic a coloratura soprano (almost reaching high C) or plead like a Slavic gypsy singer with basso profundo and schmalz...