Word: pardoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some think of others. Said Queen Marie Antoinette, after she stepped by accident on her executioner's foot: "Monsieur, I beg your pardon." "Let not poor Nelly starve," said Charles II of his mistress, Nell Gwyn. And George M. Cohan's last words were of his wife: "Look after Agnes." But few have left behind them last words as filled with dignity and grace as those of an Indian chief named Crowfoot, leader of the Blackfoot Confederacy: "A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we come, into nowhere...
Rivera, who too often zigged when the party zagged, was so pleased with his pardon that he worked on a huge (8 ft. by 16 ft.) canvas, depicting-according to the Gospel of St. Marx-last year's liberation of neighboring Guatemala by General Carlos Castillo Armas...
...British morality that delighted the book clubs, Hollywood producers and the general public, but alienated first-line critics. "The novelist who sells the reader a good time," Hilton once said, "tends to do so furtively, hoping that certain critics will not notice the offense, since they could not possibly pardon...
Lately, Boom-Boom seems to have kept his temper in check. His fans note that he has acquired some of the social graces, such as saying "Pardon me" when he belches and making polite small talk while signing autographs. He smokes big cigars, wears sharp clothes, owns two apartment houses. Geoffrion is also a family man (married to Marlene Morenz, figure-skating daughter of a hockey immortal, the late Howie Morenz...
Only hours before its death sentence was to be carried out last week, the little town of Follansbee, W.Va. got a reprieve-and then a full pardon. Follansbee's doom seemed to be sealed by the deal under which Promoter Frederick W. Richmond would buy out the town's major employer, Follansbee Steel Corp., and sell the mill and inventories to Republic Steel Corp. for dismantling and shipment down South (TIME, Sept. 27; Nov. 8). At the last minute, Federal District Judge Herbert S. Boreman stepped in. He declared last week that the Follansbee stockholders vote approving...