Word: suppliant
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...Messrs. Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson. All of the stereotyped elements of light, small-town comedy are introduced in the evening's parade of the ridiculous. There is the sharp-tongued old grandmother who watches fights, domestic and public, with equal zest; there is the inescapable younger brother, of suppliant mien in financial matters and of blatant taste in underwear; there is the selfish, ambitious mother who is determined to carve out a musical career for her daughter, despite the girl's love for the inevitable local swain; and then, of course, there is Dudley himself, the typical hail fellow...
...issue," said Senator Costigan, "may be postponed by a reluctant timid or suppliant majority of the Senate, driven or hypnotized by the allurements or hostility of White House, financial or industrial interests. It cannot, however, be evaded. ... It involves nothing less than the inalienable right of American citizens to life...
...Mirror. She may return with the count whose title proved a misnomer at Monte Carlo. She may be hailed as the leading emotionalist of the stage, for all the world loves a lovable Lorelei especially if her diction is precious and her ankles thin. But though the world play suppliant at her feet, yet all this is as nothing if the keystone of her career has not been dropped into place. If the joyful tidings have not been shared in the corridors of Sever, if the word has not been whispered across the tables of the Reading Room...
...will allow me to say so, I am not here as a suppliant to America. I came here to tell you what I know of the action and the objects of the League and to hear from yon, as I hope I shall hear, criticisms and suggestions, not made in a merely carping spirit, but constructed with a desire to advance the great cause which I firmly believe American people have as much at heart as any people in the world...
With firm confidence in the ultimate mercy of that Providence which regulates all things transient and trivial in the minds of men, I enter the lists of the educational combat as an humble suppliant, who only desires to know why these things...