Word: pardonable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...polite about it as they are about everything in Japan. There, if one man knocks an- other down accidentally they both apologize. They did the same on the field so there was much time out for bowing and telling one's opponent go Men Nasai, ("I beg your pardon"). But there is very little of that...
...inflame the malcontents still further came news that British Justice had hanged last week at Lahore that murder-guilty patriot, Bhagat Singh.† Declaring that the pact with Viceroy Lord Irwin should not have been signed because it did not pardon Bhagat Singh, opponents of St. Gandhi went among the 6,000 delegates shouting...
Chief cause of the riot seemed to be resentment against the State Pardon & Parole Board's administration of the indeterminate sentence law, by which the Board, and not judge or jury, ultimately fixes the time a prisoner must serve. Said round-faced, Roman Catholic Chaplain Elegius Weir: "One of the principal objections of the prisoners is that although all ten members of the Board pass upon the parole applications, only three of them actually come here to hear the cases. They claim they are allowed only one or two minutes to present their cases. They say they are sworn...
...Officer McElliott's misfortune to be convicted last year of an "indirect" violation of the Volstead Act for which he was fined $100. Rather than pay the fine he languished in jail, the while appealing to the White House. Last week President Hoover granted him a full pardon, remitted his fine, because he had been a good policeman for 20 years...
Similarly most kings make it a policy to pardon men for attempting their lives, when they would never think of pardoning them for attempting citizens' lives. The monarch hopes he will be thought "magnanimous," dare not be thought "vengeful...