Word: penitente
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In Brooklyn last month John Seles, butcher, was held up and robbed of $40 in his small store. Last week, Taximan John Kirschner entered the store, stood behind Butcher Seles, cried, "Hands up! Get into the ice box!" Butcher Seles whirled, drove his cleaver through the base of Mr. Kirschner...
3) Patrick O'Donnell, Archbishop of Armagh, who cleaned "poteen-(Irish moonshine) from his diocese by making penitent drinkers walk miles for absolution;
None so humble and strict in her pieties as hollow-breasted Leah, penitent Jewess. The wicked willows saw her live black hair hacked off. Come Yom Kippur, she fainted with fasting. After a year, pale, pious Eli from the yeshiveh (seminary) brought her to peace.
Somewhat penitent, he turned his hand to school-teaching and minor peculations, then lived a while with his father. The strain of this hypocrisy was too great, however. Soon he was off to Canada, where he established a most profitable counterfeiting establishment beyond reach of the U. S. law. That...
In Vienna, Karl Jaworek faced judge and jury to answer for attempting the assassination of ex-Chancellor Ignaz Seipel (TIME, June 9). To the court was read a penitent letter from the accused to his victim. The minimum sentence is usually five years hard labor.