Word: sainte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sugar Bowl has produced many Olympic skiers, the latest begin Dodie Post, a participant in this year's meet at Saint Mortiz, and is famed for its fast, steep runs...
...films as This Happy Breed and Brief Encounter (in which her performance was voted the year's best by New York City's film critics). The occasion: her first stage appearance in five years, as the heroine in the Old Vic production of Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan. The reception was unusual for Celia only in that it contained dissent...
...Good Saint. Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov was given the seat with the best view, through the front windows overlooking St. James's Park and, in the distance, Buckingham Palace. Across from Molotov sat France's Georges Bidault, unobtrusive, yet bearing himself as though France were in the European ascendancy...
...familiar form, thundering that only the Soviet Union desired a "democratic, peace"-that the other great powers sought an "imperialist peace" and were stirring up a new war. Bevin turned his heaviest humor on that. Said he: "We are used to it now, being called warmongers. The only good saint in the world is the Soviet Union. As for the rest of us, we all come from somewhere down below, I suppose." Molotov smiled a wintry ghost of a smile...
...centuries, France's spinsters (technically all unmarried women over 25) have cut loose once a year on the day of their saint (who was a spinster herself). Last week, according to custom, the procession of "Catherinettes" (composed largely of midinettes in crazy headgear) stampeded to the saint's statue on the garish Boulevard St.-Denis. An old tradition permitted all men to kiss any spinster they encountered on St. Catherine's Day, but this was outlawed by some busybody reformers in 1933; last week, as usual, the 1933 prohibition was roundly ignored...