Word: marchant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fiercely, repeatedly the British denied their Repulse was hit. Seaman Vincent Marchant, who managed to get overside from Royal Oak and swim ashore through the tons of oil which cloyed and dragged down others, tended to corroborate Prien's 30-second version as against the Admiralty's 2O-minute one. Marchant's story seemed to refute Prien's belief that he hit Repulse. Marchant told of four hits on Royal Oak. After the first explosion, he just had time to get from his hammock to the deck. Then followed the second, third and fourth blasts. Evidently...
...understood everywhere. In his last 20 years this Dominican was believed to have performed 58,000 miracles, or eight a day. He was canonized in 1455. The Dominicans who conduct the Manhattan church were piously pleased to receive their patron's relic. The Very Rev. William A. Marchant, prior and pastor of St. Vincent Ferrer's, estimated the reliquary to be at least 450 years old. But who the "personal friend'' was that brought him this invaluable antique, Father Marchant would not tell...
With Mussert lying low as usual, one of his successful candidates, Count Marchant Dansembourg, predicted with fine Netherlandish restraint that in the general election of 1937 N. S. B. will poll 40% of the vote...