Word: pardoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Felice Orsini went to the guillotine in March 1858. crying "Viva l'Italia! Viva la Francia!" To show his love of Italy, Louis Napoleon would have liked to pardon him; instead, thirteen months later, he led an army of 200,000 over the Alps and defeated the Austrians at Solferino and Magenta. It was the beginning of the end of foreign rule in Italy. The new Kingdom of Italy, established seven years later, would have to decide whether Felice Orsini was a hero or an inept killer, or both. As to his bomb-throwing predilections, he might have answered...
...braces. Suspenders, rather than garters, if you will pardon the liberty, are what hold up our socks...
...Francisco, Evangelist Billy Graham last week preached to 4,000 inmates of San Quentin prison sprawled on the baseball diamond under a hot sun. Said Billy: "We all sit spiritually right now on death's row unless our sins are forgiven. But we can get a full pardon from Christ." Promptly 647 convicts stepped up to "declare for Christ," making a record percentage for the Graham crusades. "I haven't any more time," pleaded Billy after autographing 25 pledge cards. "Oh, we've got lots of time," cried the signature-seeking cons. Suggested Billy: "Let some...
...read his own verse to some 11,000 in Austin and Dallas, had some clipped words for the Waste Landish poets of the ''Beat Generation": "I have always felt about any form of existentialism the way James Thurber felt about the Civil War-I beg your pardon, the War Between the States-I expect to see it blow over. I don't see why a whole generation should be so gloomy. There are a lot of things to be cheerful about...
...Eisenhower is not an outdoors woman. On her trim, shapely legs (if you'll pardon the expression) she wears very sheer dark stockings with her black dinner dresses. We found some low-calorie chocolates for her. and she couldn't have been more appreciative had we given her emeralds." Mamie became "homesick" for Ike one night when visiting Pianist Alec Templeton played When You and I Were Young, Maggie. Sighed Mamie: "That's his favorite song...