Word: penitente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Helen Jepson coached with Garden, simulated the Garden costumes, scrupulously followed the Garden pattern as she changed from glittering courtesan to penitent nun. So far as externals went, Helen Jepson had learned her lesson well. She sang pleasantly and surely, acted more easily than did rich-voiced John Charles Thomas...
Seven years ago the Methodist Church appointed a commission to revise its Hymnal, which had been in use since 1905. The commission expanded to 36 members -bishops, ministers, laymen-when the Methodist Church, South accepted an invitation to join and the Methodist Protestant Church begged to be allowed to collaborate...
The meal was nearly over when a convict suddenly appeared in the doorway. No penitent whiner was he. Instead he leveled an automatic, barked, "Hands up!" Warden Holohan was returning from the telephone. His guests saw three more convicts knock him down, crack his skull with their pistol butts. Boardman...
Many a non-Catholic has been perplexed by indulgences, believing that they afford an easy means of forgiveness of sin or pardon for future sin. According to Catholic doctrine, an indulgence is the remission in whole or in part of temporal punishment (in Purgatory) for sins whose guilt has already...
Ann is a pretty little girl, of good family, whose parents have never told her, and who finds out to her sorrow from a bad boy, a bad girl, and a bad man. Her first cigarette, her first cocktail, and her first kiss are not followed in quick succession by...