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...Marriage without obstacles isn't tempting to two such young simpletons." So the fathers fight, the children refuse to accept the feud as final separation, and Romeo-and-Juliet-like they defy the quarrel. The young lady is being abducted, her lover saves her. The fathers relent. All is forgiven. Curtain...
...scorn when Crown Princess Juliana, precocious at 15, became innocently infatuated with a 30 year old Jewish widower, Gabriel Alara, a sweet-voiced, black-eyed cantor in an Amsterdam synagog (TIME, Dec. 8, 1923.) But such is the winsomeness of Princess Juliana that, in her presence, all is soon forgiven...
...against "U. S. debt Shylocking" by announcing over Mr. Mellon's signature: 1) that under the Mellon-Berenger agreement, if and when ratified, France will repay a sum roughly equivalent to only her post-War borrowings from the U. S., and may therefore be said to have been forgiven her War debt entire; 2) that "England borrowed a large proportion of its debt to us for purely commercial, as distinguished from War, purposes to save borrowing from its own people." (i. e. Britain deserves no cancellation of these "commercial" camouflaged "War loans...
...England last week Dr. F. W. Axham died of bronchitis, in his 86th year. Two days before death he whispered haltingly over the rales: " Let us forgive. I speak generally. For myself I forgive, as I hope to be forgiven...
...Senator may be expelled for revealing the proceedings of an executive session. Senator Bingham thought one Senator had been. He was wrong. In 1844, Senator Benjamin Tappan of Ohio, after deep apologies, was forgiven for having divulged confidential information to newspapers. It has long been the custom of the Senate tacitly to permit a Senator to tell how he himself voted in secret session. Thus Senator Overman of North Carolina jubilantly boasts he voted against Mr. Woodlock...