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Word: pardoner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often there is a good one. It is probably the lure of discovery that keeps the habitual reader going. One can always pick up the newest offering with trembling excitement. However, in the case of Reginald Wright Kauffman's most recent temptation there is no cause for excitement. "Beg Pardon, Sir!" is not an intrusion upon the low average of its contemporaries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Recent Novels | 6/4/1929 | See Source »

...killed ten, had been thrown into a San Francisco "Preparedness" parade. Later evidence seemed to prove them not guilty. Their judge and nine of their ten living jurors have since declared them guiltless. California has not reconsidered their case, which is now before Governor C. C. Young for a pardon. To propagandize in their favor a national "Mooney-Billings Committee" has been formed. Among its members are: Harry Elmer Barnes, Clarence Darrow, John Dewey, Glenn Frank, Alexander Meiklejohn, H. L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Noble Inspiration | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...limit this. It might also be added that in intramural sports the aliens often occupy a good deal of space. Nevertheless, there is so much talk about the invasion of Oxford by Americans and this is so frequently blamed on the Rhodes Trust, that I hope that you will pardon me for seeking to correct any possible misapprehensions. I may add that while in the abstract. Oxford sometimes discusses the same matter, I never found that the fact of being an American caused the slightest prejudice against an individual. This, naturally, may vary with persons and, more particularly, with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Point Counter Point | 4/17/1929 | See Source »

...Pardon, my General," quavered Orderly Juan, "I could not find a soldier to take your bomb to the canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Evening of a Bomb | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...President Hoover last week granted a pardon, his first, to Nat Goldstein. Missouri politician, convicted in a liquor conspiracy case in St. Louis. Goldstein was a Lowden delegate at the 1920 Republican National Convention to whom $2,500 was paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Rejoicing and Gladness | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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