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...plead, in other words, for a genuine memorial. M. Fred Loewenstein...
...Court-So have I. You know what to do; plead her [the defendant] guilty and tell her to throw herself on the mercy of the Court...
Judge Norris changed the record to read: "So have I. What is it, counsel, do you wish to plead her guilty and throw herself on the mercy of the Court...
...French Deputy who rose magnificently in the Chamber in 1922 in defense of his compatriot Battling Siki, kinky-haired light heavyweight. M. Siki had just knocked out the then popular Georges Carpentier and had been ruled from the ring by the French Boxing Federation. So eloquently did Deputy Diagne plead that Battling Siki was reinstated, only to be shot dead near a Manhattan speakeasy...
...population of 10,000 in six weeks. He fights the outlawry that has terrorized the clapboard civilization; he establishes himself as the leading citizen of Osage and then disappears because success seems dull to him. He comes back again in a Rough Rider's uniform, goes into court to plead the defence of Estelle Taylor, the town's fanciest lady, whom his wife is about to have punished as a public nuisance; he loses a chance to be governor because he will not connive with politicians who are cheating the Indians out of their oil profits, then disappears again...