Word: pardoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frau Cosima was dead. Son Siegfried had pneumonia. Nearest of kin to great Wilhelm Richard Wagner, in charge of this first evening of the 1930 Bayreuth festival was Siegfried's anxious wife. Yet despite all difficulties Tannhauser soared sonorously, sublimely to its final great choral of pity and pardon. When it was ended critics outdid one another in hailing the performance as the most brilliant Bayreuth opening in years. For Toscanini it was a great night, his Bayreuth debut. To his presence-perhaps his last engagement as an opera conductor -was ascribed an early sell-out of admissions...
Fortnight ago the California Supreme Court, which has jurisdiction over the pardon petitions of second offenders, refused to approve the release of Warren Billings, onetime labor agitator jailed for life for bombing San Francisco's Preparedness Day parade 14 years ago. Thomas Mooney, another agitator sentenced with Billings, was only a first offender. He could and did petition Governor Clement Calhoun Young directly (TIME, July 14). Last week the Governor shattered Mooney's immediate hope, refused him a pardon also...
Last week the Supreme Court of California dashed Billings' hope for release after 14 years' imprisonment when, after a long review of his case, it advised Governor Clement Calhoun Young not to pardon him. Because he was a two-time felon, Billings' application for pardon had, under the law, to be reviewed by the Supreme Court. Mooney on the other hand could and did apply directly to Governor Young. That official had declared that the essential facts were the same in both cases and that his action in each would be guided by the court...
...which he was sentenced. I leave no one there for more than two or three years and after that time the men released are not compelled to live in a certain place. They can dwell in any part of Italy they choose. Every day I receive petitions for pardon and one of them that I have just signed lies before me on my desk at this moment. When my daughter was engaged innumerable appeals of this kind were made, for, as you can understand, that was a period of sentimental excitement. I told my daughter, 'Everyone who makes...
...last interview, Elizabeth gives him a talisman, a ring by means of which he may, if he wishes, secure her pardon. In his last hour, he entrusts this to the Queen's messenger, a court lady whose love he has spurned. She betrays him, informs Elizabeth that he is still arrogant, has made no mention of the token. When the Queen learns the truth, the axe has fallen. As it has cleaved the neck of Essex, so it splits Elizabeth's aged, remorseful heart...