Word: pardoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crack compiler of U. S. folk songs, arrived in Manhattan with a big, wild-eyed Negro known as Lead Belly (real name: Huddie Ledbetter). John Lomax' protègé was a murderer, but he was also a natural-born minstrel. From a Texas jail he won his pardon by singing a petition to onetime Governor Pat Neff. In the Louisiana swamplands his knife made more trouble. Again he was imprisoned, again got out with a song when John Lomax made a phonograph record of it, submitted it personally to the late Governor Allen...
...Mudd's pardon was signed by President Andrew Jackson as you state on p. 57 of your issue of Feb. 24, it must have been done on a ouija board. Don't you mean President Andrew Johnson...
...Caesar, a tittering young sophisticate whose debaucheries were many but whose only political crime had been joining Sulla's opponents. Clever and consumingly ambitious, Caesar dodged and bribed his way out of Italy, and even after his friend's had won for him Sulla's contemptuous pardon he was wise enough not to return till after Sulla's death. While Caesar was cultivating the arts of a courtier in Asia (Author Bentley has him companioning a pervert out of policy, implies he was not really that way himself), his rival Pompey was winning victories all over...
...neighbor had killed his lady. Therefore he killed the interloper with a bullet from his lever-action Winchester and was unmoved when they sent him to state's prison for 20 years. When he got out in four, he found that Camden had the explanation for his pardon, and for the ghost of Bugle Ann which ran the woods the night of his return. So nearly a scenario was Kantor's novel that Samuel Hoffenstein and Harvey Gates could have written most of their adaptation with a pair of shears and a paste-pot. Yet no company...
...coral crags. Somehow they lived through the second onslaught. In even more miraculous manner so did Terangi and the more important part of his tree's crew. The grateful Administrator's wife helped him on to his interrupted escape, then fished untiringly until she pulled up a pardon...