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Word: pleased (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The believers in the innocence of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti could have asked no more than that all the pleas, objections, exceptions or motions of any sort in behalf of these convicted men should be heard, considered and duly weighed by the tribunals of this Commonwealth. These pleas or...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Easy Aces! | 10/26/1926 | See Source »

Out of the retirement in Maiden, Mass., to which she had committed herself less than six weeks before, Ethel Leginska came ostensibly to the aid of the People's Symphony Orchestra of Boston. The musicians wanted better pay, the public wanted more concerts, but the directors were deaf even to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Boston | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

For four days last week before the Interstate Commerce Commission at Washington, lawyers for opposing factions of railroaders, bankers and investors tersely yet passionately made their final pleas for and against the proposed billion-and -a -half consolidation of the Nickel Plate, Erie, Pere Marquette, Hocking Valley and Chesapeake & Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Nickel Plate | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

When the editorials printed on this subject by the undergraduate papers of Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth are placed side by side, one discovers a significant nucleus of agreement between them all. All of them agree that intercollegiate football is overemphasized. All of them point out that this overemphasis manifests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEXT MOVE | 12/4/1925 | See Source »

For in strict truth this Shubert concoction is a pretty flabby affair. This is not to deny it any merit whatever undeniably it has its moments, as for instance in the delightfully absurd Balloon dance, in the dancing of Tommy Healy and the mere appearances of Lucita Covera,--in the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/19/1925 | See Source »

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