Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farmstorming tour was emitted by Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire, official Hooverizer of the East. Quoth he: "The ploughboy of the Eastern world goes West in a $1,000,000 special train to carry relief to the harassed farmers of that section. His remedy consists of a plea to give him a chance. His promise consists in a pledge to appoint a commission to tell him what...
Dressed in the magnificent rags of theatrical insurgence, surrounded by beautiful girls and elaborate scenery, yodeling a plea for stout-hearted men made tuneful by Sigmund Romberg, Robert (Robert Halliday) and his assistant (William O'Neal) organize their golden expedition. Robert is not content with merely this adventure; in making pretty passes at the hand of a charming aristocrat, he is arrested for treason. On the way to France where Robert is to be punished, the heroine-aristocrat helps to save him and put him in command of the boat on which he was a prisoner. The boat then...
School Examinations. That examinations be omitted as vicious at secondary schools, was the plea of Headmaster Cyril Norwood of Harrow...
Just prior to a meeting of tennis moguls in the Hotel Vanderbilt, Manhattan, Tilden made two mistakes: 1) He told the tycoons that business prevented his defending his case, which inevitably was inferred to be a plea of guilty; and 2) he released for publication a letter which he wrote to President Samuel H. Collom, of the U. S. L. T. A., wherein he said, among other things, that he "did not intentionally violate or attempt to evade the spirit or letter of the [player-writer] rule and to the best of my knowledge articles under dispute do not violate...
...United States is the Keystone of our national strength, our pride in the hour of prosperity, our consolation and rallying point under every pressure of adversity . . . etc., etc." "I believe in meeting an issue squarely," he said. Next came Women, then a review of Coolidge Economy, then a plea for Debt Reduction...