Word: pardonable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President made a brief announcement that following the recommendation of the Attorney-General he would issue no pardon to Oilman Harry F. Sinclair, in jail for contempt of Senate (refusing to answer questions) and of court (jury shadowing), or to Henry Mason Day, Mr. Sinclair's henchman. Day has a passport to go to Europe next month when he will be released in the regular course of events. Sinclair must wait till November, in spite of his plea that his weight has fallen from 200 Ibs. to 185 Ibs., that stockholders are suffering from his absence...
...Chicago, was the hero of the story which he wrote himself. Many another U. S. newspaper retold the tale of woe (TIME, June 3). Convict Burns got much sympathy. Letters, telephone calls, personal visits to Illinois and Georgia authorities besought a pardon for much-pitied Convict Burns...
...make the day of christening doubly joyful King Alexander decreed the pardon of several prominent Slovenes arrested since His Majesty proclaimed himself Dictator of Jugoslavia (TIME, Jan. 14). There was only one jarring note, significant, typically Balkan...
Pomeroy has a notion he deserves a pardon, that he has been punished enough. In 1925 a suffraget daughter of Lucy Stone wrote a newspaper letter against the release of Pomeroy. She charged that his crime was worse than that of Loeb and Leopold, that he was unregenerate, that in his cell he had skinned alive a kitten. From jail Pomeroy hired a lawyer, filed a $5,000 libel, was awarded damages of $1 which he never collected, preferring to hold the court order for payment as a "vindication." In his cell he learned several languages, wrote poetry, was called...
...grandiloquent than The Oppressed, where the daughter of the Spanish High Constable to the Netherlands is in love with the leader of the oppressed Flemings. The photography might be 20 years old and so might the sword fights, the kisses in jail, the pursuit on horseback, the Inquisition, the pardon delivered at the scaffold by the king's messenger. Only good shot: Raquel Meller crossing herself in bed when her dog, startled by a flash of lightning, begins to bark...