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ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?

Denied parole nine straight times, he insists he is innocent of the crime for which he was convicted.

Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.

She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.

This wasn't at all what he meant to say, and it sounded very ridiculous; but somehow the words wouldn't come straight.

She had listened—she had listened intently, looking straight out of the window and without moving.

Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.

He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!