Word: pardoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police of Station 22 to 30 days' imprisonment. Protesting, they were led into the office of Federal Police Chief Arturo Bertollo. Smilingly he offered two choices: appeal the verdict, meanwhile staying in jail, or sign a paper on his desk and receive in return a presidential pardon, which he was empowered to issue forthwith. The paper was a statement acknowledging the accusation but not their guilt. Shea and McCombe signed. Then, with Juan Peron's "pardon," they walked out into the daylight of Buenos Aires...
...Pleasure" shrewdly parodies the present undergraduate draft uneasiness with a "chances of Being Drafted" chart based on World Situation, declining eyesight, and class standing. And Charles Robinson's cartoon depicts a truck telescoped into a crevice in the road, with the bedraggled driver looking up at "Pardon This Inconvenience While Massachusetts Forges Another . . ." The other cartoons merely break up their respective pages...
...last week some 517 of the faithful, masterminded by the Communist-front Congress of Civil Rights, descended on Richmond to establish a "vigil of prayer." The Communist calliope swung into high. The Union of Polish Youth cabled a demand for a "full pardon for the seven innocent Negro youths." Moscow trotted out its tame intellects. "In the name of justice and the sacred rights of man, we raise our wrathful voice in protest," said Shostakovich, Prokofiev & Co. The radio of the Chinese People's Government broadcast an appeal to stay "this barbaric sentence...
Last week President Peron ordered a pardon for Balbin because "a definitive sentence [had] not yet been pronounced" on him. With these bland words, Peron disarmed his critics. Balbin went to his home. But the law of desacato (disrespect for public officials), under which Balbin had been sent to jail, remained very much in effect...
...York, a blunt physical culturist submitted his candidates for the ten most beautiful women in America "if they would only lose ten pounds." Among them-Cinemactress Jane Russell, "four inches too big through the pectoralis muscles, both major and minor"; Actress Denise (Pardon Our French) Parcel, "one of the sexiest figures ever to grace our shores, but she's still ten pounds too sexy"; Tallulah Bankhead, "too much around the rectus abdominis region"; Anne (Kiss Me, Kate) Jeffreys, "a reduction in the gluteus muscles, both maximus and medius, is indicated...