Word: pardon
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Permit me to humbly beg your pardon for my tirade against you when, by mistake, I read "Applesauce" at the bottom of a column in TIME, [Feb. 22, RELIGION], when it really was "Applause." Probably the reason for my misreading, other than my old eyes, was that I am so used to reading fault-finding letters that I naturally look for faults. Hereafter I shall bear in mind that I can make mistakes ; and I shall not hunt for yours and be so wroth when I find...
Last week Victor Louis Berger, Socialist Congressman from Wisconsin, applied to President Coolidge and to Attorney General Sargent to have Mr. Debs' citizenship restored. The Attorney General was of the opinion that Mr. Debs would first have to make application for pardon. Various opinions...
...Berger: "That is like asking a Methodist to seek a pardon for being a Methodist. Debs doesn't think he has done anything to be pardoned...
...Debs: "under no circumstances will I apply for pardon I made no defense when I was tried because I felt that I had committed no crime. If I should apply for pardon it would be in my eyes an acknowledgment that I was wrong when I stood my ground for the right of free speech in the United States...
...traditions. Quarterback Dexter and his backfield mates conquer the waiter's eleven, but are penalized 30 days, for unnecessary roughness by the superior blue jacket reserves. An accidental escape from jail follows, a hasty wedding, so that Dexter's stay in foreign waters may not be lonesome, and a pardon by the district attorney--the bride's father, of course--lead to the fade...