Word: pardoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leave from the Front. The play is obviously contemporary, because it is about War and a tart. Of course, just as our modern stage ladies always turn out in the course of the play to be tarts, so this tart in the last act becomes a lady. (You must pardon the over-use of the word "tart" in this review, but modern literature has made "lady" or even "woman" seem so Victorian...
...this represent the British fleet," said he, pushing forward a whiskey bottle that was in front of him, "and this," placing beside it a soda siphon, "the American fleet. I really beg your pardon, gentlemen, I had no intention of referring to Prohibition. I had no thought of the contents of the bottles when I began the demonstration...
Suspicion into Hate. Among Dictator Primo de Rivera's first acts was to pardon (in 1923) disgraced General Berenguer, then under sentence of 20 years' imprisonment. In 1924 the Dictator again kept the General out of jail, allowed him to spend a pleasant month in a remote Spanish castle in lieu of serving six months in prison, as did several of Berenguer's friends, for the crime of denouncing at a public banquet the Dictature...
...Pardon, Your Excellency! I cannot undertake to receive such a note from a third-class power...