Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...KROGER Grand Island...
Alexis de Villeneuve, M.R.P. candidate, was speaking at a rally in the Place de la Cathédrale, main square of the island's capital, Saint-Denis. He was interrupted by a group which included Paul Verges, son of Reunion's Communist Deputy. According to the M.R.P. paper L'Aube, the hecklers rattled nails in empty kettles and banged iron spoons against pots & pans. Whereupon De Villeneuve turned on his tormentors and cried: "If you have any questions to ask, ask them in a proper way." Verges yelled back "Yes. How does the candidate like this?" Whipping...
...first two meets, on April 20 and 27, saw the Mikkolamen smother first Tufts and Connecticut, and then Rhode Island and Holy Cross. By grabbing most of the win, place, and show monies, the Crimson copped 216 1/6 of a possible 325 points for the two contests. The Fisher boys, Jack and Willo, started their hegemony over the weight events, finishing one-two and two-one in the hammer throw on the two successive Saturdays. Jack Hunter, high and low hurdle artist, was elected captain just after the first meet...
...Order sent him back to Rhode Island, to set up shop just nine miles from St. George's. In the School of St. Gregory the Great (Portsmouth Priory), Father Hugh proved he could do for Catholics what he had done for Protestants. The school now has 120 boys, 20 masters (more than half of them monks). Though he retired as headmaster in 1942, until recently Father Diman taught the course in "Christian Doctrine...
Most Powerful Instrument. Today, in black Benedictine habit, with clipped white hair and wrinkled face, Father Diman still strolls The Priory grounds, looks over Narragansett Bay to the sun setting red behind Prudence Island. The boys stand in awe of the old man; and he, who sees less of them than he used to, thinks boys have changed. "They turn the radio on as soon as they go to their rooms. There isn't half as much reading as there used to be," he says sadly...