Word: pardonable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...highest crime temperature in the civilized world. In the report of its chairman, Richard Washburn Child, "the most important things" listed for discussion and improvement were: 1) Laws against traffic in stolen goods. 2) Compiling of crime statistics by all the states. 3) Prison labor problems. 4) The pardon & parole system...
...court was moved to anguish; it was announced that President Hernando Siles would be asked for a pardon...
...committee's resolution was something of a pardon as well as an endorsement. Ever since he "chawed" his cigars and hurled his epithets at the policies of Woodrow Wilson, Senator Reed has been regarded by Missouri Democrats as a renegade...
...very well to pardon the culprits by saying that they are following a tradition. But traditions whose outward demonstrations are as puerile as are these have no place in the University. No accumulation of years can sanctify them. And it seems impossible that this particular variety of Jow burlesque could have been practised in Cambridge for over one hundred and fifty years. Certainly these exhibitions must originally have been more humorous and not so scurrilous...
...hope you will pardon this wail. I am indifferent whether you publish it now that I feel better for having said a word, probably crudely, in behalf of Curtis, one of your early subscribers who always boosts TIME and who introduced me to its delightful pages, who has since been promoted to Counselor of Embassy at Habana. DANIEL ROBERTS...