Word: pardon
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...Algiers, the Committee authorized its representatives in freed France to: 1) publish laws and decrees for their zones; 2) exercise the right of pardon, symbolic of the highest State authority, useful for freeing patriots and resisters jailed by the Germans or by Vichymen...
...Pardon me, boys, is that...
What I recall particularly is that Freyberg rose, after the names of the dav's felons had been announced, to ask that The Boss stay his hand and that the boys, who would otherwise have been soundly beaten in the corridor ... be granted a full pardon. Seeing that he had scored his point, he went full out and asked that the whole college be excused from classes for the rest of the day. It was a lead-pipe tactic. The Boss groaned once in his beard and surrendered...
...Pardon Me, Madame . . ." Jimmy Durante is, for example, no ordinary word mangler. There are manglers galore in show business, but Jimmy has a poet's ear for the mot injuste ("Let me hear that high note, maestro ! . . . What a note ! . . . A promissory note, if I ever heard one!'") And Jimmy is a past master of timing-that comedian's sine qua non. In the grand old days of the comedy team of (Lou) Clayton, (Eddie) Jackson and Durante, which broke up in 1931, Jimmy led them in a repertory of nightclub shenanigans (elaborately punctuated by a disreputable...
Jimmy is also a pinwheel satirist. He constantly kids the formalities of human discourse ('"Dat's da conditions dat prevail!'"). He is a relentless lampooner of high society who, in his nightclubs, has often suddenly leered over an especially low neckline with a solicitous '"Pardon me, madame, dew you feel a draft?'" Jimmy's own show business takes a constant beating from him. Perhaps the subtlest of all his comic achievements is his parody of the way in which many people from his own proletarian background maltreat the culture they so earnestly desire...