Word: pardoner
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...college literary magazines spring eternal from the female scribe. So like a Phoenix from the ashes of the Bay Tree (pardon the metaphor) springs the new Radcliffe magazine, sponsored by that carefree little journal, the News...
...sincerely beg your pardon, ladies and gentlemen of the Browning Club; I have taken too long in expressing . . . May I quote from the editorial which launches--no, one doesn't launch a tree, does one . . . but this isn't a tree any more...
...father sets the sheriff on her lover, Buck Merritt, moonshiner, and marries her off to a mountaineer to make her an honest woman. After several years of cussing and slamming the door of their shack, the mountaineer blows himself up working on a road gang. Buck Merritt gets his pardon just then and comes back for Angel and Little Buck. The primitive feelings of mountain people are conscientiously concentrated, but drama is not felt, as it was in Poet Heyward's other story, Porgy (1925), about a purple-black beggar of Charleston. He has let the beauty...
...much for that. If the cases of nullity from coercion, outside of China and Africa, are more frequent among the wealthy than the poor, that is because selling into marriage is more common among the wealthy than the poor. Speaking without knowledge is bad for the reputation. Please pardon another word. A very simple and not uncommon case for some reason or other was exaggerated beyond its importance. A woman appeared before an ecclesiastical court and asked it whether or not in its opinion her marriage, in the light of sworn testimony, was valid. The court replied after hearing...
...University of Texas, where she was earning an M. A. despite her full-time hours in Mr. Moody's office, Rebecca Bradley was called "serious-minded." Instead of "flapper bandit," Texans were saying, "an aberration." Robbery with firearms is a capital crime in Texas. But Governors can pardon anything...