Word: saint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Looking like a cross between Santa Claus and Socrates, M. Chéron is one of the few people in the world who was a friend of a legitimate Saint. Years ago in his native Normandy he used to play the guitar while Thérèse Martin, the "Little Flower" of Lisieux, sang hymns. This intrepid Norman was Minister of Finance immediately after Premier Poincaré's famed stabilization of the franc, served in three cabinets and retired in 1930, leaving a treasury surplus of 19,000,000,000 francs. Because Papa Chéron was never...
...Legion nabs an important chieftain in the perpetual Berber rebellion in French Morocco, another springs up to take his place. Two of the greatest of these blue-cowled die-hards were the Brothers El Hiba and Merebbi Rebbo Mehammedan of the south, sometimes called "The Blue Sultan,"* sometimes "The Saint." Nabbed in 1917 by the French, El Hiba passed his baton on to Brother Merebbi. For 16 years Merebbi's home has been the wide Moroccan Desert and the passes of the Atlas Mountains. By day he has worn dust on his tongue, sand in his eyes...
When a new saint is to be elevated by the Roman Catholic Church, vast St. Peter's in Rome is made ready for public ceremonial, its walls hung with red-&-gold draperies and great oil paintings depicting the life and works of the candidate. Myriad chandeliers light the enormous basilica. The canonization ceremonies may cost as much as $30,000, which is borne by persons interested in the new saint. Last week St. Peter's was alight, packed with pilgrims from all nations including many a white-bonneted nun. Cardinals Verdier of Paris and Lienart of Lille...
...Moncada agreed to a government compromise, but not Sandino. He dismissed all the married men in his army and went to the hills. He called his favorite mountain El Chipote (The Tough Guy), himself "the wild beast of the mountains." His men reverently called him San Digno (The Worthy Saint). When he went into battle he hung extra cartridge belts around his neck, shined up his puttees and stuck a jungle flower into his shovel-shaped cowboy hat. The Nicaraguan Government could not stop him. Five thousand U. S. Marines chased him for five years, killed nearly...
What, if anything, happens after that the audience was hard put to understand. In Act I, labeled "Avila: Saint Therese half indoors and half out of doors," Saint Therese holds the stage, permits herself to be photographed with an old-fashioned camera covered with black cloth. Other saints bombard her with questions. Finally when the chorus solemnly asks her: "If it were possible to kill 5,000 Chinamen by pressing a button would it be done?" an end man replies for her: "Saint Therese not interested...