Word: romuald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Inscription. Still chipper and wreathed with good humor, the President led a pack of newsmen and celebrity hounds through some two dozen national exhibits of goods and crafts at the fair. He talked with Polish Ambassador Romuald Spasowski about Tadeusz Kosciuszko, the Polish hero who fought in the Revolutionary War. Said Ike: "I always think of the quotation [on the Kosciuszko statue across the street from the White House]: 'And Freedom Shrieked As Kosciuszko Fell.' But I can never pronounce the name [kosh-tchoosh...
...East Room. "Ladies and gentlemen." he said, his face creased in smiles. "I have something interesting to announce. I have just been advised that a satellite is in orbit and that its weight is nearly 9,000 pounds." The crowd broke into applause. Even Communist Poland's ambassador, Romuald Spasowksi said, "Terrific. I am myself a physicist, and to put such a big load so high is a great achievement." Said Denmark's new ambassador, Count Gustav Knuth-Winterfeldt: "It was the best Christmas present we could have...
...drenched with old-fashioned ideas. A young seminarist is bowed before the altar, taking his priestly vows, when he glimpses a green-eyed courtesan of "supernatural beauty." Thenceforth, his life takes on a Jekyll-and-Hyde cast: by day he is a humble village priest, by night "the Lord Romuald," lover of Clarimonde, living in an Italian palace amid such pomp and splendor that "I do not believe that since Satan fell from heaven, any creature was ever prouder or more insolent." Clarimonde, however, has the old ghost-story habit of sucking the blood from her lover...
Tired of ward routine, Demara took to religion again. Shuttling back & forth across the Maine-New Brunswick border between two religious houses, he met the real Dr. Cyr and won his confidence. "Dr. Hamann" never betrayed himself in his medical shoptalk. At St. Romuald in Quebec, "Dr. Hamann" became "Brother John." But almost at once, he ran away and signed on with the R.C.N...