Word: pleased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hysterical survivors filled the press with stories of leaking lifeboats, faulty tackle, indifference of officers, mutinous and incompetent crew. Capt. William J. Carey went down with his ship; but those who watched him on the bridge, taciturn, deaf to questions and pleas, wonder why he deferred SOS until 20 hours...
At 9 o'clock, Captain Carey, hitherto indifferent to pleas of passengers to "do something," ordered women and children on deck.
Almost tearful were the pleas for protection voiced to the Conference by many an industrialist delegate, including one from Sheffield who cried: "Forty-three more of our blast furnaces have been shut down in the past twelve months! If the steel industry isn't safeguarded, I predict that not...
The Prime Minister, who lost the election of 1923 on the "Safeguarding" issue remained deaf to all such pleas, although he himself is in the steel business, and only said:
But well might Democrats quake. Though three other sects have been indirectly affected by political pleas of one sort or another, the Walker pronouncement is the first direct appeal from the highest official of a denomination to all members of his communion. It is therefore signifcant as the possible beginning...