Word: germain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...police escort. The answer: "We trusted in the Lord, as always." Fourteen tellers were set to work counting up the bills, needed 3½ hours to verify the total. But by evening the faithful had their check. By the next day the hotel had been purchased and one Brother Germain had announced new rules for guests: 1) no smoking, 2) no drinking, 3) no wives and husbands allowed in the same bedroom...
...match with Dorothy Kielty, a fellow Californian from Long Beach. Though Marlene came back strong on the last nine, she was down one on the 18th, and beaten. In the finals, tournament-wise Dorothy Kielty, winner of last year's Western, met her match. Mrs. Dorothy Germain Porter, 25-year-old housewife of Westmont, N.J., beat her 3 and 2, became the first mother to take the title since Glenna Collett Vare took it 14 years...
Robert J. Fahey of 3 Essex Rd., Belmont; Belmont High. Chester V. Ford, Jr., of 23 Aberdeen St., Boston; Boston Public Latin. James H. Freeman of Willbraham Academy, Wilbraham; Wilbraham Academy. Paul Fruit of 28 Ransom Rd., Brighton; Boston Public Latin. Sumner J. P. Germain of 48 Sewall St., Lynn; English High, Lynn. Thomas J. Gill of 159 Chestnut Ave., Boston; Boston Public Latin...
...grew older, Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas, once a dandy of dandies, became a surly misanthrope. He turned his favorite Delacroix to the wall so that others could not enjoy it. Invited out to dinner, he insisted that there be no dogs around, and no flowers on the table, lest other guests indulge in sentimentalities. This was the Degas whom the French poet and philosopher Paul Valéry came to know, an old man raging at his enemies and riding alone on the tops of buses...
Lord George Germain. Disgraced as a British soldier for refusing to lead his forces into action against the French, he was court-martialed, branded as a coward, cut in society, but rose to colonial secretary as "the most implacable enemy of the American colonists," demanded unconditional surrender, and excelled at jeering at the cowardice of Americans...