Word: pardonable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...switches in sight. Next he goes outdoors and scares a lady by waving wrenches at her because the buttons on her dress remind him of the nuts on his assembly belt. Chaplin goes to jail where he enjoys life until, by helping quell a prison mutiny, he wins a pardon. Faced once more with the task of confronting a world where even less eccentric and more ambitious individuals are having a hard time, he experiences a series of disasters...
...Admiralty and the sailors' delegates. Finally an agreement was reached. But the promised reforms had to go through Parliament, and the suspicious sailors, irked by the delay, mutinied again. This time there was bloodshed. Thoroughly alarmed, the Government rushed the changes into legal form, got a royal pardon for the reformers. Everything ended happily: many an unpopular officer was relieved or transferred and not a single mutineer was punished...
...their cues from his wife who, as "Aunt Vivian," broadcast bedtime stories over a private radio station. Convicted, Olmstead was sentenced to four years in prison, fined $8,000, assessed court costs. The sentence long since served, he has turned religious, become a Christian Scientist. Last week with a pardon as a Christmas present, President Roosevelt excused Roy Olmstead from the unpaid fine and costs, restored his civil rights. At a press conference last February, the President called forward to his desk James Parks Hornaday, Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis News, and declared: "The nicest and truest thing...
Governor Harold Hoffman of New Jersey (who also has 13 letters in his name), has no power to pardon prisoners, but he can stay executions for as much as 90 days. That the week of Jan. 13 may come and go without Prisoner Hauptmann's paying the supreme penalty for his crime was indicated last week when Governor Hoffman declared: "If Bruno Hauptmann were to be electrocuted tonight there would still be in my mind and, I am convinced, in the minds of hundreds of thousands of people, great doubt that the Lindbergh baby murder had been solved completely...
Arrested last week, Besson accepted fate stoically. But no sooner was he arraigned before the magistrate than friends produced as from a magician's hat a full pardon-signed by Albert Lebrun, President of France...