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After a few years the Terrible Buzzards broke up. A few of them even married and settled down. But not Abe, not Joe. In 1893 Abe persuaded Governor Pattison that he was a reformed character and deserved a pardon. Thereupon, he went piously from town to town preaching sermons on "Ruin and Reform." Very soon, when he was arrested again for stealing chickens, the county constables found a pistol and burglar's tools in his bag along with his Bible and hymn book. From then on he was never out of jail for very long at a time...
...have proved embarrassing. At any rate while Edith Dahl has worked up in a few weeks from a Riviera night club to one in Paris, Whitey has remained in custody at Salamanca. Last week the General's headquarters announced that Airman Dahl's reprieve was not a pardon, as had been thought, carries with it an "automatic sentence to life imprisonment...
...deliver a package of thing which he rather unromantically concluded were probably groceries, the Vagabond turned around briskly, and blinded by the sudden darkness, proceeded to run his finger up and down the card Catalogue until he found it was the back of a girl's checked cost. "Pardon me," he stammered, "I was looking for Gini." "Well, she's not here," came the answer...
General Vicente Rojo announced and Barcelona repeated that there would be no executions, no pillaging, and a pardon for the defenders of the cathedral if they would surrender. All this was changed when word seeped through from Rightist territory that the best-hated Rightist General in Spain, Miguel Aranda of the siege of Oviedo, was leading the relief column against Teruel and none other than Jos Moscardó, hero of the Alcazar, was re-enacting that same siege inside Teruel. Tanks rumbled against the cathedral within the hour. Six-inch guns fired point blank into the seminary, the bank...
...pardon me, but I think I can make a point concerning your comments and your readers' comments on errors in pronunciation as perpetrated over the radio by certain prominent speakers. I doubt that there is any such thing as perfect speech. There are dialects, tones of voice, inflections and peculiarities characteristic of the inhabitants of various sections of the country. The so-called American language is a conglomeration of these various speeches and accepted usage is often a matter of locality...