Word: val
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Benjamin Self and his stout, hearty wife Viola arrived in Val D'Or, Quebec, eleven years ago, they had $4 in cash and $267 worth of hardware. When the Selfs retired last week and headed for a U.S. vacation (the World Series, Ben's birthplace at Claremore, Okla., the Mardi Gras at New Orleans, then the warm sun of Florida and Cuba), they had $20,000 cash-the price they got for their hardware store-$100,000 in Val D'Or real estate, and an estimated 100,000 shares of 32?-a-share stock...
...wild laughs, blown leaves, scrawks and tongue-swallowings of jittery nightbirds, and darkness in an empty room would have pleased and scared the daylights out of Poe himself. For all the film's gently dawdling beginning, horror-specialist Producer Val Lewton and his colleagues have turned Isle of the Dead into one of the best horror movies ever made
...Pierrette went to the rock every day ay 3 p.m. to pray and to help the sick and teh crippled. As they years passed by story spread that Pierrette was gifted with supernatural powers and could obtain the intercession of St. Francis in healing the ills of the faithful. Val d'Or's civic leaders contributed labor and material to build Pierrette a grotto...
Miracles of Val d'Or. As usual in such cases, there are skeptics. But many of Quebec's devout Roman Catholic people credit the child with performing miracles...
Pierrette's father, a Val d'Or clerk, has been fearful that his daughter's fame would spread too fast, that his family would incur the wrath of the Church.* The Church itself, sternly resolved to distinguish between truth and fraud, forbids recognition of any person's "miracles," no matter how well documented, as long as the person is alive. In Pierrette's case, the Church has been scrupulously uncommunicative...