Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theoretically, St. Laurent should be within reach of a majority on the first ballot of the 1,299 convention delegates. He will have most of Quebec's 324 votes, a good part of Ontario's 388. A modest number of votes from the Maritime provinces and a scattering from the west should add up to the necessary...
...mixed bathing. Le Nouvelliste, ardent supporter of the church, assailed "the thoughtlessness of demoniac youth." The Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Centre, the Saint Jean Baptiste Society and the Society of Nocturnal Adoration all rallied to the bishop, ignored the fact that when the Archbishop of Quebec, Monsignor Maurice Roy, was Bishop of Trois-Rivières, he held that mixed bathing was none of the church's business...
RENEE HAWEIS CHIPMAN Montreal, Quebec...
...recent Quebec court case, Judge Oscar Boulanger spoke his outrage at French-speaking witnesses who used English words for the parts of a car. Example: "le steering knuckle-arm" for la tige du joint de direction. Along Quebec roads, French-speaking motorists ask for "gas" instead of essence...
...purists were fighting uphill. Most of Quebec's women say "lipstick" for rouge a levres, and "Cutex" (a trade name) for any nail polish-vernis a angles. In the sports arena, their menfolk scream: L'arbitre est un robber! A prizefight announcer cries: Le champion a knockoute son adversaire. And French Canadians of both sexes grin as they say II faut se watcher...