Word: pardoner
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...when his father sold the distillery. Thereafter Son Harry manufactured Bourbon for various companies, alcohol for the Government during the War, medicinal whiskey for Schenley during Prohibition. Stocky, round-faced, white-haired, he bustles around his plant with his hat pushed back on his head, continually begging the pardon of girl packers with whom he collides. The company baseball team knows that it is in for a stern reprimand from him if it ever loses a game. To keep fit he drinks a jigger of whiskey before every meal and at bedtime...
...condemned man waits for a last-minute pardon, which does not come...
...Pardon my adenoids and the California sunshine...
...drinks without a change in his tone, manner or posture. Finally I said, 'For God's sake, can't you be human and talk for once like a human being?' And what do you suppose this guy said, without changing his dead-pan expression ?'Begging your pardon, sir, but here in England we're all a bit of a snob.' So that was that...
...arrived in the U. S. with two little girls in blonde pigtails, a flaxen-haired boy waving a U. S. flag, a babe-in-arms. They were Dodger Bergdoll's wife & children, come to visit his 76-year-old mother in Philadelphia and petition the Federal Government to pardon him, give back his confiscated $800,000 fortune, let him return to the U. S. a citizen. The Government promptly indicated it would do no such thing. In Germany this week Fugitive Bergdoll announced he would surrender to the U. S. and stand trial in Federal Court if the five...