Word: penitente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Penitent perfume in the black nostrils of Malta's Italian Bishops is the following apology made recently by the island's British Premier, whose mother was a Maltese:
"After we docked at Leningrad," confessed a penitent stoker from the freighter Asta, "there was a big meeting. All us German sailors in town came. A Russian got up and explained a lot of things. So we all voted to strike."
The great Giotto painted himself into one of his murals at Padua as one of a crowd of penitent sinners. Last week the art world learned that Giotto's chief living disciple has also painted himself into a mural, not as a sinner, for he is a Communist and...
Bought (Warner) will be particularly pleasing to admirers of the Bennett family. Father Richard Bennett, altered by a monstrous Gothic nose, plays the part of a ladies' apparel buyer who makes friends with a model and finds, as his friendship progresses, that she is his illegitimate daughter. Daughter Constance...
* Privileged communication between priest and penitent can not be said to have been recognized as a rule of common law either in England or the U. S. But the privilege is sanctioned by statute in more than half the States, including Minnesota.