Word: saint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LeNoblet Duplessis, the Premier of Quebec, scorned the taking of bids on public works as "disguised hypocrisy," and bestowed stretches of highway to qualified areas (i.e., they voted right) in the fashion of a feudal lord. He set elections for Wednesdays, day of devotion to St. Joseph, his patron saint, and went faithfully to 6 a.m. Mass at the Quebec City Roman Catholic basilica, while his bodyguard, a Protestant, waited impassively in the rear of the church. Neither the man nor his government could have happened anywhere but in Quebec...
North by Northwest. Director Alfred Hitchcock's implausible, entertaining mystery, with Gary Grant as a Madison Avenue adman up to his immaculate collar in spies and counterspies, among them Eva Marie Saint and James Mason...
Distribution Points. In Saint Simeon, Canada, which gets its water supply from a small mountain lake, housewives complained that brook trout were coming out of their faucets...
...Lord Catto of Cairncatto, 80, who as governor (1944-49) of the Bank of England presided over its transition from a private to a nationalized institution, for years worked in such close collaboration with famed Economist Lord Keynes that the two were dubbed Lords Catto and Doggo; in Holmbury Saint Mary, England...
North by Northwest. Alfred Hitchcock's latest cliffhanger (the cliffs are on Mount Rushmore), thoroughly entertaining and suspenseful, with Gary Grant hemmed in by spies and counterspies, among them Eva Marie Saint and James Mason...