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Word: pardons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pardon my rough and tumble entrance to your party. But a brick through the window arouses quicker interest than a dollar's worth of pansies laid lovingly on the threshold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Misfit Cornell | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...article on the death of Wilham D. Haywood, you refer to the I. W. W. men convicted of violating war laws and say that most of them are still in Leavenworth prison. We are glad to state that every one of them has long since been released by pardon of the President and that there are not now any federal political or industrial prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 18, 1928 | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

Last month, Ben Bess got out of jail. Governor Richards pardoned him. The pardon was the result of Maude Collins' confession-now that she is 60 and expecting Death soon-that she had sworn falsely about Ben Bess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Collins Woman Case | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...matter. The advertisements are after Saks-Fifth-Avenue and Brooks in their Ritziest moments, and if there is a little gents-room language somewhere on the page it will escape the eye of all but the most inquiring. Blackburn's Raymond ad and the Oh-so-French perfumery exhibit (pardon fumes of exquisite women) of Mr. Breck are after this manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PURGE OF HUMORS USED IN "NEW YORKER" PARODY PRODUCED BY LAMPOON | 4/27/1928 | See Source »

...eventually commit suicide (an exaggeration, note by reviewer) to evade reading proof (grant the evasion N. B. R.), and that a predominance of tight wad stories took their inspiration not from Scotchmen, but from College Comic Treasurers. (The good dog hunts ....? N. B. R.) (Editor of the Crimson please pardon four dots. Tact compels me. You may cut it to three, but no less...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINDS CURRENT LAMPOON ISSUE NOT STARTLING | 2/11/1928 | See Source »

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