Word: pardoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father sets the sheriff on her lover, Buck Merritt, moonshiner, and marries her off to a mountaineer to make her an honest woman. After several years of cussing and slamming the door of their shack, the mountaineer blows himself up working on a road gang. Buck Merritt gets his pardon just then and comes back for Angel and Little Buck. The primitive feelings of mountain people are conscientiously concentrated, but drama is not felt, as it was in Poet Heyward's other story, Porgy (1925), about a purple-black beggar of Charleston. He has let the beauty...
...much for that. If the cases of nullity from coercion, outside of China and Africa, are more frequent among the wealthy than the poor, that is because selling into marriage is more common among the wealthy than the poor. Speaking without knowledge is bad for the reputation. Please pardon another word. A very simple and not uncommon case for some reason or other was exaggerated beyond its importance. A woman appeared before an ecclesiastical court and asked it whether or not in its opinion her marriage, in the light of sworn testimony, was valid. The court replied after hearing...
...University of Texas, where she was earning an M. A. despite her full-time hours in Mr. Moody's office, Rebecca Bradley was called "serious-minded." Instead of "flapper bandit," Texans were saying, "an aberration." Robbery with firearms is a capital crime in Texas. But Governors can pardon anything...
Alfred E. Smith, Governor of New York: "Followers of law and politics have often observed that the question of pardon is one of a governor's most serious problems, as one pardon inevitably leads to a host of applications for others. Last week I was presented with 10,000 signatures urging clemency for Brooklyn Patrolman John J. Brennan, 28, condemned to the electric chair. On Jan. 2 one Samuel Krainen, shopkeeper, called at a Brooklyn police station, and identified Brennan as one who had created a disturbance in his shop when drunk. As a sergeant was thereupon removing Brennan...
Next day, Henry Hudson, faithful Negro servant to the Governor, shouldered all the blame; pleaded guilty to the ownership of the confiscated liquor. "Henry, how could you?" said the Governor; forth with announcing that he would pardon honest Henry before retiring from his office in January...