Word: saints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saint-Brieux, France, one Victor Rousoult was walking along the docks where he worked, when a dangling hook caught in the ring on his finger. The derrick from which the hook dangled hoisted ring, finger and Rousoult 100 feet into the air. Comrades saw, shouted. The derrick lowered Rousoult to the ground. When he was within a few feet of landing, his finger tore...
...Stekene, Belgium, Conductor Van Hove de Saint-Pol put his orchestra through the paces of a brisk number, brought it to an abrupt end and ordered a funeral march. Whispering complaints, his players fumbled for their scores. But Saint-Pol hissed them quiet, tapped for attention, led the march through and dropped dead...
...best justification of the current claim for sainthood is to be found in the attitude of all French Catholics who for the past hundred and thirty years have cherished the memory of their unhappy king. For many years after the passing of the Terrorist government the "martyrdom of the sainted Louis" was a stock expression which in one form or another appears in the works of all ardent Catholic writers. Today it appears that devoted Catholics in France still look upon him as a saint. Whether or not the Pope sees fit to stamp this judgment with the seal...
...Lucient Saint, ruthless French Resident General of Tunis, was transferred, last week, to be Resident General of French Morocco, amid covert Tunisian glee...
...undisputed in the minds of more U. S. doctors. It was made up of some of the best men in the profession: Menas S. Gregory, neurological director of the psychopathic department of Bellevue Hospital; Stanley R. Benedict of the Cornell University Medical School; Thomas McGoldrick, medical director of Saint Peters Hospital, Brooklyn; Israel Strauss, president of the Jewish Mental Health Society; George B. Wallace, assistant physician, Bellevue Hospital and Linsly R. Williams, director of the New York Academy of Medicine...