Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before dawn in Montreal one morning last week, hundreds of pious folk began toiling up the icy slopes of Mount Royal to a long, low crypt cut out of the rock of the Côte des Neiges. Many of them brought food, planning to spend the day which was the feast of St. Joseph, foster father of Christ. By nightfall 50,000 pilgrims had crowded into the crypt. They had heard pontifical high mass sung by Montreal's Auxiliary Bishop Alphonse Emmanuel Deschamps, later assisted at benediction of the Blessed Sacrament given by Vicar General Monseigneur Conrad Chaumont...
Teams from the Dartmouth Alumni Outing Club, Dartmouth College, the Newport Ski Team, the Redbirds of Montreal, the Schussverein Ski Team, the White Mountain Ski Runners, and the Hochgeberge Club will compete to make one of the largest meets in the east...
...patent medicine salesman and unlicensed dentist named Hawley Harvey Crippen gave his wife, a music hall wench, an overdose of hyoscine, chopped up her remains, buried them in the coal cellar of their London home. He then took his secretary into the house to live with him, fled to Montreal on the S.S. Montrose when his late wife's friends infected Scotland Yard with their suspicions. The only elements in the Crippen case which might possibly raise it above the low level of other murders, were: 1) in flight the secretary wore boy's clothes; 2) when detectives...
Sargent explained that the College disapproves of students touring all the tournaments, and pointed out that he has already played in the Gold Racquet Tournament in New York, the Laphan Trophy in Montreal, the Nationals in Pittsburgh, and the Harvard-Princeton match at Princeton. Harry Cowles, the coach, advised him to choose between the Intercollegiates and the Nationals and Sargent went to Pittsburgh, allured by the national title. He qualified for the semi-final round, and then was defeated by Neil J. Sullivan...
...thereafter. Chabot proved an exception. Traded to Toronto, he helped that team win the Stanley Cup in 1932, the following year guarded its net throughout the longest hockey game on record (2 hr., 44 min.) which the Maple Leafs won, 1-to-0. Last year he played for the Montreal Canadiens. Before this season started he and three hockey-player friends went on a fishing trip. In a village saloon, one of them picked up a paper which contained the news that Chabot had been traded to the Black Hawks...