Word: pardons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gentleman of Leisure. The diamonds are stolen again?no, beg pardon, its pearls, this time?three strings of them?one genuine and two artificial. An incredible burglar says " demm" and " dese" and " dey " on the slightest provocation. Fashionable life at Bayshore is full of butlers. Sigrid Holmquist is very pretty. Jack Holt has a nice mustache. A villain is known by his white, white spats, etc. Which may sound incoherent, but is as faithful a report as possible of as chaotic a cinema inanity as has flickered out the storehouse for some time...
...President, men are serving ten and twenty year sentences for free speech. You pardon others, why not these...
...open letter has been sent to President Harding asking him to pardon the prisoners...
...Henry van Dyke: "Said 1 of Mr. Edison's tribute to the movies: ' If you will pardon me for using such an expression, I'll say it's all poppycock...
...prisoner had written a confession accepting the guilt for two murders in Massachusetts, while serving a fifteen year sentence in Pennsylvania for another crime. He received a pardon from Governor Sproul to enable him to stand trial on the charge of murder. His story to the jury of his life is the old story of a failure forced to earn an illegitimate livelihood by the grasping attitude of society. But coming to the murders this confessed criminal admitted that his confession was "faked", claimed his entire innocence and said to the jury quietly...