Word: sainte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poujade himself was barely keeping alive. "If I paid my taxes, I would have gone broke," Poujade insists. "I had to pay out more than I made. It was the same thing for everybody in Saint-Céré and all over France. We could only keep going by fraud...
...Revolt. One day in July 1953, a local blacksmith and municipal councilor named Georges Fregeac got a tax notice: contrôle (inspection of his books) next day. Twenty-six other shopkeepers and artisans of Saint-Céré got the same notice. Blacksmith Fregeac was behind in his taxes, of course, and he could not pay. Hurriedly, he summoned his fellow councilors to an emergency meeting in a café. Early next morning, two inspectors faced a hostile crowd of some 300 shopkeepers in slippers and aprons. "Get out of here," yelled the mob. The inspectors left. Pierre...
After two years of selling books as a traveling salesman, Poujade leased a twelve-foot shop on Saint-Céré's main street and opened a book and stationery store. While Pierre's mother minded their four children, Yvette tended shop and Poujade peddled books on his route in an ancient Renault. He got a taxi license, drove summer tourists on sightseeing trips, conducted guided tours for summer visitors. As a Gaullist, he was elected to the town's 24-man municipal council...
...stop the Irish," declares Daniel M. O'Sullivan, originator of a state legislature bill to make St. Patrick's Day a legal holiday. Blizzard and all, 50,000 wearers of the Green are expected to slosh through South Boston streets at 2 this afternoon, in honor of their patron saint...
...Malefactors, it becomes an end in itself, exposing only cliquish gossip. Written with sensibility, if debatable sense, the novel inadvertently reveals that the Lost Generation may not have been lost at all, just born to be led astray and taken in. Was its christener, Gertrude Stein, its patron saint after all, or was it P. T. Barnum...