Word: sainte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patron saint of U.S. Congressional buffoons is the junketeer who, on the occasion of a visit to the court of- the Hellenes, inspected Queen Frederika of Greece from stem to stern and raucously proclaimed her "the cutest little Queenie I ever saw." The Congressman and his antics came a few years too soon: today he could play his role before the whir, glare and flash of a dozen cameras. In the harlequinade tumble for television, radio and newspaper publicity, more and more Congressmen have begun to play to the microphone and the lens...
...boys" do come back, greeted by an elfish faced woman, with a Saint Patrick's Day smile. In her green dress, and with her thin white hair pulled back. Mrs. Corballis has served dessert for more than eight years. Before coming to the Union, she worked at the Central Kitchen and the Medical School. Her specialty in the freshman dining hall is dessert, served with a smile, and garnished with "Hello sweetheart, how are you today...
...President of Italy, it should be good enough for a U.S. high school." Bristling with indignation, Sculptor Fazzini pointed out that he had done the altar columns for the new American College in Rome, had made a 10-ft statue of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, America's first saint, for Rome's Church of Saint Eugenius. "Where's Bristol?" Fazzini angrily demanded. "To know who I am all you have to do is open any art publication or see who won the first prize at the international Biennale of Venice." Back in Bristol, Fazzini's blast...
...Wayward Saint (by Paul Vincent Carroll) is a St. Francis-like Irish canon, who-to his own and his bishop's distress -gets a name for sainthood thrust upon him. His noticeable talents for talking to birds, healing children and making plums grow on cherry trees have forced the bishop to banish him to a remote country parish. There, in the form of a worldly baron, appears an emissary of the Devil, panting after such a trophy as the soul of a saint. Under the baron's prodding, the canon begins to think he really is a saint...
...Wayward Saint has the materials for a delicate satiric fantasy; in spots it boasts nice, imaginative touches and humorous lines, and in Irish Actor Liam Redmond it has an expertly lovable canon...