Word: pardoner
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Acting Head of the extremely active British Government last week was the Home Secretary, Sir John Allsebrook Simon, whose functions are normally the sinecure of preserving order in the well-behaved British Isles and advising His Majesty in cases where the royal prerogative of pardon should be exercised...
...Kindly pardon my poor English...
Sirs: Your opinion-pardon me, TIME, does not express opinions-your description of Boake Carter's "sinister British baritone" and "his freedom to express any partisan opinion that pops into his head" (TIME, April 13) agrees with mine...
...crack compiler of U. S. folk songs, arrived in Manhattan with a big, wild-eyed Negro known as Lead Belly (real name: Huddie Ledbetter). John Lomax' protègé was a murderer, but he was also a natural-born minstrel. From a Texas jail he won his pardon by singing a petition to onetime Governor Pat Neff. In the Louisiana swamplands his knife made more trouble. Again he was imprisoned, again got out with a song when John Lomax made a phonograph record of it, submitted it personally to the late Governor Allen...
...Caesar, a tittering young sophisticate whose debaucheries were many but whose only political crime had been joining Sulla's opponents. Clever and consumingly ambitious, Caesar dodged and bribed his way out of Italy, and even after his friend's had won for him Sulla's contemptuous pardon he was wise enough not to return till after Sulla's death. While Caesar was cultivating the arts of a courtier in Asia (Author Bentley has him companioning a pervert out of policy, implies he was not really that way himself), his rival Pompey was winning victories all over...