Word: pardons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Methodist Episcopal. The bishops convene in semi-annual conference only as an administrative body and to hear reports. This time they heard that Bishop Anton Bast of Denmark could not join them because pardon or reprieve from his prison was refused (TIME, March 29) ; that reports of Mexi can religious persecution were false; that England lags in restricting liquor sales in India. The conference was calm...
...latest book of short stories is handpicked from All the Sad Young Men, his accumulated magazine work of months. And it is only the cream from skimmed milk. Fitzgerald is safe, at least for a while. Reviewers will pardon him a last youthful indiscretion or two now that he has shown himself on the verge of his long expected maturity by the writing of "The Great Gatsby", But it is that he cannot have praise without strings tied to it for the writing of "All the Sad Young...
Permit me to humbly beg your pardon for my tirade against you when, by mistake, I read "Applesauce" at the bottom of a column in TIME, [Feb. 22, RELIGION], when it really was "Applause." Probably the reason for my misreading, other than my old eyes, was that I am so used to reading fault-finding letters that I naturally look for faults. Hereafter I shall bear in mind that I can make mistakes ; and I shall not hunt for yours and be so wroth when I find...
...difficult in reviewing Brahms' Requiem to restrain superlatives, and although it seems customary to bar any superlative but a negative from a critic's vocabulary, the reviewer must ask pardon in this case...
...Debs: "under no circumstances will I apply for pardon I made no defense when I was tried because I felt that I had committed no crime. If I should apply for pardon it would be in my eyes an acknowledgment that I was wrong when I stood my ground for the right of free speech in the United States...