Word: evening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After work, St. Laurent spends the evening on state papers, listening to the radio, or reading (usually newspapers and magazines). Sometimes he works crossword puzzles. In the absence of Madame St. Laurent, who spends some of her time in Quebec, his apartment is kept by Mrs. Anne Parr-Morley, a middle-aged Englishwoman. "When I ask him what he wants for a meal," she says, "he almost always says 'Oh, just fix me some eggs.' " He also likes macaroni & cheese and chicken. St. Laurent, though no teetotaler, seldom takes a drink at home, even less often entertains anyone outside...
When the war ended, Louis St. Laurent wanted to get out of politics. His living expenses were more than his ministerial income ($10,000 as minister, $6,000 as an M.P., $2,000 car allowance), and he had even had to give up some insurance policies.* But Prime Minister King had other plans...
Bitter Choice. Overshadowing this historic problem is the urgently pressing one of Canada's trade crisis. If the Washington talks do not produce healing prescriptions, St. Laurent must administer some bitter doses from his own medicine closet. He might even have to stop all but the most essential U.S. imports to Canada and let Canada live as best she could on her own production and high-priced overseas imports. That course for years to come would deny to Canadians such items as U.S.-made cars and clothes, U.S.-grown citrus fruit, Hollywood movies. Canada would save U.S. dollars...
...Today, with $15,000 as Prime Minister, plus the M.P. salary and car allowance, he about breaks even...
Poet Charles Baudelaire had eventually come to Delacroix' defense with the simple assertion that, whether or not such a horse ever existed, the painter was perfectly justified in inventing it. Even with such a shield-bearer, Delacroix lost the battle. When he died in 1863, almost everyone still agreed that his rose horse was awful...