Word: pardoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pardon scratchy script-vessel is rolling...
...previous years, before the new Constitution, the Praesidium will rule Russia as the chief organ of Government, exercising by decree the executive and legislative functions, having the judicial right of pardon. But the Praesidium, once a roster of Russia's most distinguished Old Bolsheviks, now has a majority of New Bolsheviks, many so new in the Dictator's favor that they are quite unknown to the Russian people. Only one list of 37 names was offered as candidates for the Praesidium. An announcement was made in passing that this list had been prepared by the "Council of Elders...
After a few years the Terrible Buzzards broke up. A few of them even married and settled down. But not Abe, not Joe. In 1893 Abe persuaded Governor Pattison that he was a reformed character and deserved a pardon. Thereupon, he went piously from town to town preaching sermons on "Ruin and Reform." Very soon, when he was arrested again for stealing chickens, the county constables found a pistol and burglar's tools in his bag along with his Bible and hymn book. From then on he was never out of jail for very long at a time...
...have proved embarrassing. At any rate while Edith Dahl has worked up in a few weeks from a Riviera night club to one in Paris, Whitey has remained in custody at Salamanca. Last week the General's headquarters announced that Airman Dahl's reprieve was not a pardon, as had been thought, carries with it an "automatic sentence to life imprisonment...
...deliver a package of thing which he rather unromantically concluded were probably groceries, the Vagabond turned around briskly, and blinded by the sudden darkness, proceeded to run his finger up and down the card Catalogue until he found it was the back of a girl's checked cost. "Pardon me," he stammered, "I was looking for Gini." "Well, she's not here," came the answer...