Word: pardoner
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...that in debates in the English and Maltese Parliaments, and, on other occasions, in defending himself against his political opponents, he clashed with the church and her authority and used words that should be withdrawn, and which he does, in fact, withdraw, for which he humbly and unreservedly asks pardon...
...tone and alive with romance, adventure and historical worth." Herewith a list of 24 which might do for a school-age camp: Cimarron, Rango, City Lights, Trader Horn, Skippy, A Connecticut Yankee, Chances, The Viking Spirit of Notre Dame, The Champ, Forbidden Adventure, Huckleberry Finn, Penrod and Sam Devotion, Pardon Us, Touchdown, The Man Who Played God, Around the World in 80 Minutes, Lovers Courageous, Alter Tomorrow, Sooky, Hell Divers, Young America, Destry Rides Again...
...come spontaneously. Defense counsel had formally petitioned him for executive clemency but more potent was the pressure of mainland sentiment. In Washington Congress had seethed with legislative proposals to set the convictions aside. No less than 104 Congressmen had signed a cabled plea to Governor Judd to pardon the four prisoners. Victor Steuart Kaleoaloha Houston, Hawaiian delegate in Congress, aware of the rising political tide against his territory, likewise begged the Governor...
Seemingly this nuptial fact was the basis on which King Vittorio Emanuele III ventured last week to pardon Leo Moulin who has served but eight months of his sentence. Stiffly the Dictator's office announced that a special guard would accompany Professor Moulin to the frontier; he would never again be allowed inside Italy...
...public which is used to much political braying in the wilderness will not be surprised that Representative Crisp, of Georgia, has seen fit to introduce a bill pardoning the convicted defendants in the Massie case; but it must wonder at the state of mind which the action reflects. A pardon extended form the highest legislative body in the nation would virtually sanction the action of any person who takes the law in his own hands and commits an act of Violence. That lynching and violent personal revenge are subversive of law and order, and contrary to the spirit of modern...