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...Berlin, Rome, Madrid and other capitals, other U. S. diplomats prepared similar explanations for irate Red Callers. Everywhere police protection was strengthened about U. S. envoys. With only a bill of exceptions and the Massachusetts Supreme Court, or the Governor's pardon, between them and death, Comrades Sacco and Vanzetti were more than ever the potential fuses for bombs* under the chairs of unwary U.S. dignitaries, whose safety was not increased by comment such as the opening editorial sentence of last week's Nation: "Judge Webster Thayer is a disgrace to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
...factory worker and the fish peddler remain in jail with only two hopes left. Either their able lawyer, William G. Thompson, can file exceptions to Judge Thayers" opinion in the State Supreme Court; or Governor Fuller of Massachusetts can grant them a pardon...
...loving completely Mario Cavaradossi, she brings him thus unwillingly into a political trap laid by Chief of Police Antonio Scotti, sleekest of nil Searpias, who wants the lady for himself. The second act will come with his melodramatic crescendoes. Tosca will surrender and Scarpia will supposedly draw up his pardon while Tosca's hand, fumbling, despairing, will find the carving knife on a supper table. She will stab him, steal away hugger-mugger to the condemned Cavaradossi. But Scarpia will have double-crossed her as he has hundreds of performances before, will have served his rival a real execution instead...
...purpose--but you understand. Boston College Beaten. You can see how ridiculous that is. And "Cav", I call him "Cav", and I such buddies too. But what did I accomplish, besides making poor "Cav" cry his eyes out? Nothing, or even less. For when I went to the girl, pardon the sentiment, of my dreams, did she fall on my neck and say, "Joe, you're human after all." Did she, I repeat? She did not. She said, "You poor fish, you made me bet my bottom dollar and several next to the bottom dollars against Boston college. I thought...
That the Dictator Premier considers his power appreciably bolstered by the plebiscite was seen last week when he telephoned King Alfonso XIII and asked if the monarch would pardon several artillery officers implicated in the recently suppressed mutiny against the Government (TIME, July 5 et ceq.). Replied King Alfonso over the telephone, "Si! I will pardon them." Forthwith the mutineers' sentences (one, the death penalty) were commuted...