Word: pardoner
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Hunting for "reels" and "sinful songs," Mr. Lomax found that the penitentiaries were the most fruitful places. He took a recording of one of Lead Belly's musical pleas for pardon to Governor O. K. Allen of Louisiana and a month later the darky got a pardon...
...newsorgans throughout the world denounced Der Reichsführer, wiseacres predicted that the furore would cause him to pardon somebody. Obliging Herr Hitler promptly fulfilled this prophecy, used his powers for the first time to prevent a beheading, saved and sent to 15 years imprisonment no woman but a man, one Bernard Pischon, sentenced to death for shooting a Storm Trooper...
...sleeper' for 26 years, a man removed from the world!" cried M. Ullmo. "What has pardon brought me? Am I favorably impressed by the changes which took place during my quarter century of exile? No! After six months in Europe, I depart forever. Oh, the profound, the illimitable stupidity of a human race which believes itself to be so superior...
...obscure nurse named Madeleine Poirier slaved for years to get Life Convict Ullmo pardoned. She had never seen him, but his sentence impressed her as unjust. She proved that as a young sublieutenant he had sold French military secrets of no great importance, not because he was a black-hearted traitor to his country but because he had been seduced by an adventuress, La Belle Lison. After Nurse Poirier had obtained Lifer Ullmo's pardon all France expected them to fall in love...
Please, Governor Neff, be good and kind, And if I can't get a pardon, will you cut my time...