Word: pardoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What plan do I follow when I pardon somebody? First I examine his War record. Evidently, if he is maimed or has won medals or passed several years in the trenches he has higher chances for clemency than one who has not. Then I examine the state of his health and his family. Finally, I examine what the deportee himself has to say for himself...
...water and emergency army rations, along with 451 gallons of gasoline were put into his monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis. "When I enter the cockpit," said he, "it's like going into the death chamber. When I step out at Paris it will be like getting a pardon from the governor...
...Arrival. He did not collapse in his cockpit immediately after landing, as some early despatches stated. His first words were, "Well, here we are. I am very happy": and not "Well, I did it" or "I got my pardon...
Whether Blake was insane or a very great genius will, perhaps, never be decided. Yet, whatever he may have been, his art, whether poetic or decorative, is certainly strange and not over restrained. In fact his drawings have a technique which--pardon the confusion of arts--suggests the spirit of his verse; verse which is rather primitivistic and either a rough diamond of genius or semi-incoherent whisperings of incipient insanity as you choose to look at it. In any case they are out of the ordinary, and well worth a trip to the Boston Fine Arts Museum...
...arrested for the pie episode, he goes to the house of George Montgomery, who takes him in and hides him. Soon the sheriff comes. In a ludicrous trial, Kit is ac quitted to the great discomfiture of ogreish District Attorney Sprinkle Kit's companions in theft get a pardon from the governor. Miss Siddons' madman reappears and is packed off to the asylum. Miss Siddons has her face fixed, her reputation mends slowly...