Word: pardons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yeah, I saw them, two of them, riding fast, and suddenly a tree Burp! (Pardon me, it's this stuff) loomed up from nowhere, smashed the car, and drew life's blood. Luckily they died outright, and they did not feel the blood trickle. The thought of the speeding, the sudden, final movements, and the dying, the passing . . . A cold slab, flesh cold, blood dried, eyes wide and staring dead. Have you ever...
While in San Quentin Neil wrote a poem which was accepted by the Mother's Day League and wrote an appeal for pardon which brought tears to the board. He escaped, however, before he was pardoned. He is now in jail...
...extremely interested in your article on Professor Gropius in TIME, Feb. 8. Having been associated with the Bauhaus from its earliest days until the death blow, I still take a lively interest in the doings of its former members. I hope you'll pardon me if this leads me to take the liberty of correcting a mistake in your article: The Baby Accident had no Communistic flavor whatever, and happened in Weimar in 1921, when the trend of the Bauhaus was definitely unpolitical; the parading of the town was done by a few students only, among whom was neither...
...Pardon a subscriber for mentioning it, but isn't it possible never to duplicate such ordinary pictures in LIFE and TIME, even if one has to show the President in the background, just to be different-for which TIME is notorious...
...Only Live Once (United Artists). With a smuggled automatic in his hand and the prison doctor as hostage, Eddie Taylor (Henry Fonda) is on his way out of the death house when his pardon arrives. Prison officials shriek the news at him. Eddie Taylor thinks their statement is a trick for his recapture. Too vivid in his mind is the manner in which he, innocent, was railroaded into his present plight. When the chaplain comes toward him in the fog, anxious to convince him that the pardon is authentic, Eddie shoots him. The chaplain stays on his feet long enough...