Word: pardonable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with closecropped hair, beady blue eyes, steelrimmed spectacles tied behind his bullet head, shuffles in carpet slippers every morning to the trusty building for breakfast, shuffles back to his studio in an old mule barn to work. He refuses to appear before the clemency board for a pardon. Summoned, he stops jabbering long enough to say he is better off in jail...
...heart has stood the most severe strains in a wonderful manner. I beg Einstein's pardon, that I compare my heart with the shaft of a perpetual motion contrivance, which does not exist, of course...
...that in debates in the English and Maltese Parliaments, and, on other occasions, in defending himself against his political opponents, he clashed with the church and her authority and used words that should be withdrawn, and which he does, in fact, withdraw, for which he humbly and unreservedly asks pardon...
...tone and alive with romance, adventure and historical worth." Herewith a list of 24 which might do for a school-age camp: Cimarron, Rango, City Lights, Trader Horn, Skippy, A Connecticut Yankee, Chances, The Viking Spirit of Notre Dame, The Champ, Forbidden Adventure, Huckleberry Finn, Penrod and Sam Devotion, Pardon Us, Touchdown, The Man Who Played God, Around the World in 80 Minutes, Lovers Courageous, Alter Tomorrow, Sooky, Hell Divers, Young America, Destry Rides Again...
...come spontaneously. Defense counsel had formally petitioned him for executive clemency but more potent was the pressure of mainland sentiment. In Washington Congress had seethed with legislative proposals to set the convictions aside. No less than 104 Congressmen had signed a cabled plea to Governor Judd to pardon the four prisoners. Victor Steuart Kaleoaloha Houston, Hawaiian delegate in Congress, aware of the rising political tide against his territory, likewise begged the Governor...