Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Doctor Vincent A. Beláunde, Peruvian diplomat, president, U.N. General Assembly LL.D...
...Chiropodist Earl G. Kaplan in his spare time, a dental clinic operated by volunteers from the Detroit Society of Dental Hygienists, a legal clinic manned by top lawyers. There is a Filipino Club, a Puerto Rican Club, a chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous (membership: 1,000), a St. Vincent de Paul Society, a credit union that started with $80 in 1947, now has assets of $147,000; there is even a two-night-a-week "Corktown College" (tuition: $1.33 a month), which offers such courses as English, citizenship, Spanish and folk dancing with the slogan "Never too old to learn...
...candidates' religion, although much talk had been prophesied in view of the fact that West Virginia is 93% Protestant. The pastor of a United Brethren Church in Parkersburg told his flock that if Kennedy wins, "the Pope will be running the country," and the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, stopping off in Charleston, doubted that a Catholic could remain independent. That was all, so far. And everyone remembered that in darkest 1928, Al Smith won West Virginia's Democratic primary (81,739-75,976) against Missouri's Protestant Senator James Reed...
...handful of Londoners, irked at being awakened by jet aircraft flying over their houses near London Airport, last week pounded on the front door of a Vincent Square town house. Roused by the knocking was Aviation Minister Duncan Sandys, who emerged, rumpled and in a dressing gown, to be confronted by placards reading "Ban Night Jet Flying!" Explaining that he could do nothing about the nightly noise, Early-Riser Sandys then went back inside...
Frank Harris: The Life and Loves of a Scoundrel, by Vincent Brome. The notorious turn-of-the-century editor told all, and even more, in his celebrated autobiography; the present account has less color but considerably more truth...