Word: pardons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personal history was right behind and ahead of him. At Guam, the governor told Sheean about a recent delegation of islanders who had come to express sympathy. Said the governor: "I am very grateful, but I do not know why I stand in need of sympathy." Said the islanders: "Pardon, sir, but we think you are in the same position that the Spanish Governor was in 1898." At Wake Island, the signature just before Sheean's in the station master's wife's autograph book took a whole page in English and Japanese. It was Saburo Kurusu...
...this sounds sentimental, pardon an old salt as she sheds a few anticipatory tears
...this sounds sentimental, pardon an old salt as she sheds a few anticipatory tears
Well, here 'tis another week and again we have no time to write home to Ma, much less write columns for newspapers. But we've got our pants now and nothing can mar our happiness. So, pardon us if we just muse for 250 words or so... to express that carefree spirit which is ours...
...with the other girls, and went hazel-nutting with them. She was always the one who was teased, but through the teasing she learned American gags. Later the girls went north to a summer school. A history teacher asked Mei-ling to describe Sherman's march through Georgia. "Pardon me," said Meiling, "I am a Southerner, and that subject is very painful...