Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resounding triumph. Running in a crowded field (six candidates in all) plump, 42-year-old Maurice Hartt ran thousands of votes ahead of both Independent Paul Masse and Communist Michael Buhay. The fact that the Liberal Party's best bilingual orators journeyed over from Ottawa for the windup of a slam-bang campaign, helped. But Winner Hartt almost surely owed his victory most of all to the electorate's change of mind about Communism. The Hartt victory also indicated approval of the Federal Government's handling of the Russian spy-ring investigations...
...bald, bearded Frenchman hunched painfully over his writing table was feeling old, ill and a bit sorry for himself. Painter Paul Cézanne had studied hard, but had he learned, at 67, to paint intelligibly? Hardly anyone thought so. The old man scrawled the question once again. "Shall I ever reach the goal so eagerly sought and so long pursued?" he wrote. "A vague feeling of discomfort persists which will not disappear until I shall have gained the harbor, that is, until I shall have accomplished something more promising than what has gone before...
...well. In the school, the oldest in Christendom, Saint Thomas Aquinas was once a pupil. In the library, which included unique manuscripts of Tacitus, Apuleius and Varro, such Renaissance scholars as Giovanni Boccaccio browsed and pilfered. Adalhard, Charlemagne's cousin, became a monk at Monte Cassino. So did Paul the Deacon, to whom Charlemagne wrote, in a letter, a phrase which epitomizes the abbey: Est nam certa quies fessis venientibus illuc-"For there is certain rest for the weary who come there...
...mission, led by Dr. Austin M. Brues of the University of Chicago and Dr. Paul S. Henshaw of the Manhattan District, examined some of the victims and collected information from Japanese physicians on The Bomb's delayed after-effects.* Chief findings...
...night a noisy M.C. heckled him: "Where did you learn to juggle?" Allen tried his first onstage ad lib: "I took a correspondence course in baggage-smashing." Soon he got a chance to fill in for a professional juggler-at $2 a night. He took his first stage name: "Paul' Huckle-European Entertainer...