Word: quebecers
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...present flyleaf lists two columns of unaccountably sound-sellers, many of which have dealt with cloak and sword, picturesque oaths and spirited ladies. Louis XIV being his favorite monarch, he now weaves around this "Sun King's" favorite hunting companion a somewhat laborious tale of French colonization in Quebec, complete with bloody Indian skirmishes and pious persecution of heretics. As for love interest, 8-year-old Countess Palladine, the sole survivor of a lurid Turkish massacre, is rescued thrillingly by a young English freelancer. Her gratitude very shortly develops into precocious passion, which brings her to him years later...
...music in the South was formal and surrounded with cold, music in the North was warm and humble, made gay by the climbing spring. At the Chateau Frontenac, in Quebec, was held the second annual Canadian Folk Song and Handicraft Festival...
Jacques Garneau, the champion dancer of Quebec province, spun and hopped, snapped his gnarled fingers, and clapped his hands...
...homes (at Hastings-on-Hudson, Palm Beach; Patricia Island, Quebec; Manhattan) are full of flowers, sofas and pictures of two people. One of these is his wife, beautiful Billie Burke. The other is his daughter Patricia who is idolized by her father...
Died. Floyd Bennett, 37, pilot of the first airplane to fly to the North Pole and back; of pneumonia; at Quebec...