Word: pardons
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...World fired him: There is no use in my pretending that I do not believe myself right and the World wrong in the present controversy. As far as Sacco and Vanzetti went, both the paper and the individual wanted an amelioration of the sentence. Nothing less than a pardon or a new trial was satisfactory to me. Apparently The World believed that if life imprisonment was all that could be won from Gov. Fuller, that would be bettter than nothing. Here an interesting point of tactics arises. The editorial strategy of the World is seemingly rested upon the theory that...
...fathers-one of whom, as the price of Scapin's saving his life, has offered him a coat "after I've worn it a little longer." Whether mimicking the old boys or mulcting them, whether hiding them in sacks and clouting them or-caught out-gaining their pardon by pretending to breathe his last, Scapin is never stumped. Full-bloodedly, unabashedly crude, Les Fourberies is something to race through in nonstop French, to keep ricocheting with nonstop foolishness...
...graduate student of sociology at the University of Puerto Rico; and Trudi Garcia de Quevedo, 56, Baltimore-born widow who runs a flower shop in San Juan; in Castaner, Puerto Rico, in a civil ceremony kept secret for 48 hours but approved by the Illinois Parole and Pardon Board...
...people, most of them, smell of life and their behavior smacks of truth. Miles apart as in many ways they are, Agee, like Chekhov, really substituted feeling for drama, like Chekhov tinged sadness with humor, and showed a compassion that though it might not acquit errant beings, would always pardon them. It is for such things that All the Way Home, whatever its inadequacies, has more small coins of pure silver to offer, and less stage money than any other American play this season...
...second pastoral letter was read, the choir of one Puerto Rican Church sang an Easter hymn, "Pardon, Pardon." The choir-mistress explained: if the people are wrong in voting for the governor, they need the pardon; if not, the priests need...