Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second Place Series: between the Chicago Black Hawks and the Montreal Maroons...
Third Place Series: between the New York Rangers and the Montreal Canadiens...
Roughest game was the first between the Rangers and the Canadiens, in which ten players whacked each other with their sticks so briskly that police were summoned to separate the fighters. Slowest was the first of the semi-final series, in which the Montreal Maroons out-tricked the Rangers, 2 to 1. Most exciting was the fourth, between the Bruins and the Maple Leafs, won by the Maple Leafs 2-to-1 when their young forward Regis Kelly tied the score two minutes before the end of the third period, made the winning goal in the overtime period that followed...
...poor young man named Alfred Bessette sought entry into the Congregation of the Holy Cross in Montreal. He proved too unlettered to become a priest or teacher. They let him be a novice, called him Frere Andre, made him porter of their college on the Côte des Neiges. Soon the local fathers were perturbed to find that their porter was attracting an increasing throng of visitors. Brother Andre, people believed, was able to obtain the intercession of St. Joseph in healing the ills of the pious...
...Catholic authorities gave in, allowed Brother Andre to purchase, with funds donated, a plot opposite the college, build a small wooden kiosk. By this time superstitious folk believed a story that Brother Andre had visited the Archbishop of Montreal, convinced him of his supernatural powers by paralyzing the prelate's limbs. Devout Catholics gave more & more money which enabled Brother Andre to build first a small chapel, then a bigger one, finally, with $2,000,000, to begin work on a great Oratory of St. Joseph. This building, which will eventually cost some $6,000,000, is planned...