Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to C. C. Leatherbee '29, president of the Harvard Dramatic Club, Garfield and Whiteside, attorneys for the Club, have pursuaded Mayor Nichols of Boston to appoint a board of censors to reconsider the repression of the play, "Fiesta", in Boston. Their plea was granted on the grounds that the previous condemnation had been made by incapable persons...
...vehicle a golden phoenix perched with wings spread-symbol of divine and inextinguishable Radiance. If the little slant-eyed man in spectacles really believes that he can talk with his Divine Ancestress Amaterasu-0-Mikami-as he is supposed to do several times a year-the farmer's plea must have stirred in His Majesty strange emotions...
...Ruth Kelso Wood was suing Gerald C. Wood, Chicago insurance broker, for divorce. Said Judge William N. Gemmill after hearing her plea...
Everyone looked amazed, then embarrassed, then annoyed, each in his own way. The inspectors began searching in earnest. The Herters had been abroad for six months, but not even the old plea, "I've worn that, it's almost worn out,'' could keep the inspectors' list of their attempted smugglings from including woolen coats and suits worth $700 abroad; silk pajamas, negligees, lingerie worth $1,300; bed linen, mezzotints, and a triple string of Tecla pearls with a diamond clasp...
...Only the plea of the 'jury which convicted him saved Rev. W. F. Larowe, in Savannah, from doing three months in jail. He was put on probation. The prosecuting attorney called the court's attention to the fact that, since his arrest, the minister had already spent some time behind bars. The jury recommended "extreme mercy...