Word: pardoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apparently reading TIME is conducive to petty larceny. . . . Pardon, grand larceny. I suppose this new breed of criminal starts out by making off with TIME, works up to FORTUNE and then runs away with the firm's funds and prettiest blonde...
Texas' rough-&-ready Governor James V. ("Jimmie") Allred, whose campaign promise of "no more pardon peddling" has been faithfully kept, nervously told of his latest nightmare: "I dreamed I was one of the condemned men and called for a secretary to prepare a proclamation commuting my sentence. But there was a question of whether I could sign it. Perhaps, I dreamed, the Lieutenant Governor in such a case would have to sign it. It worried me badly for I had only three minutes left to live. Then my secretary said she couldn't finish typing the proclamation in three minutes...
...when his father sold the distillery. Thereafter Son Harry manufactured Bourbon for various companies, alcohol for the Government during the War, medicinal whiskey for Schenley during Prohibition. Stocky, round-faced, white-haired, he bustles around his plant with his hat pushed back on his head, continually begging the pardon of girl packers with whom he collides. The company baseball team knows that it is in for a stern reprimand from him if it ever loses a game. To keep fit he drinks a jigger of whiskey before every meal and at bedtime...
...condemned man waits for a last-minute pardon, which does not come...
...Pardon my adenoids and the California sunshine...