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...which contained a discussion of the students whose works were to be shown in the now current Winthrop House exhibit, I said that some of the men had attained a "more than adequate degree of proficiency in the handling of their mediums." I owe those men an apology and plead guilty to self-inflicted charges of gross understatement. The oils, water-colors, and drawings which form the collection reveal more genuine talent than has been sent in any recent exhibit of contemporary...
After evaluating what he said concerning "The Jeffersonian Tradition in American Education," we can only conclude with all due humility that he adequately summarized his address in his own words when he said, "I plead guilty at once of wishful thinking." To put it in the form of a quite useful philosophical argument, everything he advocated was "necessary but not sufficient...
...terse two-minute speech in the House of Commons, Neville Chamberlain dryly repeated that somehow, some way Britain would have sent men had Finland asked for them. Up jumped Leslie Hore-Belisha. The Finns, he said, had repeatedly asked for both materials and men. It was shameful "to plead as an excuse a pure technicality." Prime Minister Chamberlain politely corrected his former War Secretary. Materials they had asked...
...with chin at an optimistic angle I invite (yea, plead) fan mail. I understand wisdom rules at your school and you all go around wrinkling your cortexes over weighty problems for the good of posterity. Well, at this school (Texas State College for Women, largest girl's school on this globe) the eyelash curler rules and we, all go around fluttering flirtatious furbelows at susceptible Profs. I hear you men all have jaw-breaking vocabularies. Well, we can polish the old apple to perfection--so maybe that makes us even. On the whole, I'll wager Harvard brushes its teeth...
...famed, white-haired George Gordon Battle. To call Earl Browder's evasion criminal fraud, roared Mr. Battle, was "flimsy, uncertain, vague, clumsy, meaningless interpretation of words." To this roar, Attorney Battle added no defense testimony whatsoever, did not even offer a defense summation. Defendant Browder instead chose to plead his own case, ably belabored the technical charge on which he was spitted. Said he in conclusion...