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...Pardon me," returned that gentleman, "Mr. Shaw is a very intelligent...
...Thomas J. Mooney, wife of the labor leader, convicted of complicity in the Preparedness Day bombing in San Francisco in 1916, addressed the meeting. A subscription of $1,000 was voted to help ob- tain a pardon for Mooney...
...baffle wit and start psychopathic conversation. The play was originally named Henry IV, because the hero?an embittered contemporary Italian?is discovered at a masquerade carnival in the guise of Emperor Henry IV (the one who went to Canossa barefoot in the snow to ask the Pope's pardon). The masquerading Italian is pitched off his horse onto a stone, and when he wakes up believes himself to be the actual Henry...
...Ghasi fanatics who shattered the Fore and Aft, and the thirty-one violators of war laws just released from Leavenworth by a presidential pardon have much in common. The Ghazi, as all devotees of Kipling know, expected to achieve Paradise by dying at the hands of his enemies, and the war prisoner doubtless hoped for the halo of the earthly martyr by going to jail...
...Supreme Court (TIME, Dec. 3) escaped from serving his sentence of 60 days in prison. In New York politics his conviction for having criticized a judge conducting a hearing on a local traction company, was an emblem of martyrdom. The case was taken to President Coolidge, Republicans urging executive pardon to prevent Mr. Craig (a Democrat) from posing further as a martyr...