Word: paolino
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...particularly and it is one of my hobbies to correct any erroneous conceptions formed of the aforesaid peoples and their countries. If Mr. Bleecker will observe more closely my letter, he will notice that I attached more importance to explaining about the Basque country than I did to Paolino's nationality. This statement answers, I trust, the question of Nicholas Cuyler Bleecker...
...concerning Paolino Uzcudun, whom I am personally acquainted with, I resent very much the statement made by Mr. Bleecker in which he calls the former a "pug." I do not doubt Mr. Bleecker's right to describe the Spanish pugilist as he sees fit but he certainly does not know Senor Uzcudun in using the epithet "pug." Mr. Paulino Uzcudun is a gentleman and a man of culture and refinement, as different in his manners from our common American fighters as night and day. The American public does not know the Spanish fighter. They are guided in their opinions...
...letter published in TIME, Nicholas Cuyler Bleecker said: "... I must ask why a person named Morris Sussman should excite himself as to whether this 'pug' [Paolino Uzcudun] was born north or south of the Pyrenees. ... I shall welcome 'one' Sussman's reply to my questions if TIME will publish this letter...
Some find the process all too rigorous. Says Father Paolino Rossi, whose job, in effect, is lobbying for would-be saints from his own Capuchin order: "It's pretty disappointing when you work for years and years and then see the miracle get rejected." But others suggest it could be stricter still. There is another major miracle-validating body in the Catholic world: the International Medical Committee for the shrine at Lourdes. Since miracles at Lourdes are all ascribed to the intercession of the Virgin Mary, it is not caught up in the saint-making process, which some believe...
...public-works employees were charged with extorting payoffs from contractors, bringing to six the total of city employees indicted during the past year. State troopers stood sentry at city hall after city workers were seen shredding documents. In a special election set for July 17, Acting Mayor Joseph Paolino Jr. is considered the leading contender. But the redoubtable Cianci has hinted that he wants his job back, which the law would seem to permit. Cianci told a cheering crowd: "We have not stopped making history...