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Word: pardons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ever came to make a Yale graduate a proctor. His room, of course, is right above mine, and the worst of it is that he is trying to learn the new waltz. You giddy devotees of Terpsichore of course know what that is, and so you'll pardon me if I don't go into details. Anyway, he is just learning it, and he does raise the most tremendous racket - "racket," by the way, is not slang, as it has survived the ravages of time for twenty years, and Prof. Dale says it's the correct thing - but I digress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "STANDS IT NOT WITHIN THE PROSPECT OF BELIEF?" | 5/18/1882 | See Source »

...Park, "The Banker's Daughter" will tread the stage for another week with those pretty sandals, that show the most delicious bit of a black stock - beg your pardon - we mean hose. Mr. Palmer's company, from the Union Square, is perhaps the best suited of any of the stock companies to the presentation of such plays as this, which is too well known to require any comment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THEATRICAL ATTRACTIONS NEXT WEEK. | 5/13/1882 | See Source »

Immense petitions for the pardon of Sergt. Mason have been started to Washington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 3/20/1882 | See Source »

...Ohio legislature requests the President to pardon Sergeant Mason, Guiteau's assailant, and the Garfield Club of New York has started a petition for his pardon. They expect 100,000 signatures in a week's time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 3/15/1882 | See Source »

...noise and disturbance among the waiters at Memorial during the late breakfast hour. As yet there is no improvement. It is certainly disagreeable to have scrubbing and dusting going on while one is endeavoring to enjoy a morning meal; this could be excused, while there is no pardon for the singing of plantation choruses and anti-slavery orations. We trust that the gentlemen in charge will attend to the matter, and ask the waiters to check their flow of spirits until after ten o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/20/1882 | See Source »

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