Word: pardoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took place -but not exactly as scheduled. Only 27 exported ex-hoodlums showed up in Rome, and they never even bothered to demonstrate. But fat Charles Carrolla, former liquor racketeer and boss of Kansas City's North Side, lamented along with other exiles. "I hope President Eisenhower will pardon me and let me back into the U.S.," he cried. "Here, I am always followed around by police agents. Besides, Italy is a poor country...
President Batista's "forgive and forget" law will allow some 335 exiles and fugitives to return home, will set free 65 oppositionists jailed for such crimes as armed rebellion, terrorism, gunrunning, insulting government officials and distributing propaganda. Specifically excluded from the pardon: Cuba's Communists...
Undaunted, he continued: "They called me the only man that made the President laugh. When they introduced him, 'Gentlemen, the President of the United States, Calvin Coolidge,' I said, 'Pardon me, I didn't catch the name." Blackstone's interest in politics heightened when he was recommended for vice-president as "The only man who could fool the people...
...High Fidelity magazine: "I fail to see what pleasure there is in having to have a unit with as many as 16 knobs and selector switches . . . Me, I am so old-fashioned that my home-built [unit] has no tone control . . . Furthermore, I am sure that I have rumble-pardon...
...Pardon me, Mcine Herr, but you have forgotten you paper...