Word: sava
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...serious-minded young King (who was christened with the mixed waters of Yugoslavia's three great rivers, the Sava, the Drava and the Danube) grew up as a Serb. His chief tutors were Professor Slobodan Jovanovitch of Belgrade University, who is sometimes called "Yugoslavia's intellectual conscience," and Chief of Staff General Kossitch. Peter also had an English tutor, C. C. Parrot, who taught him to like Robert Louis Stevenson and P. G. Wodehouse. As the time for his assumption of power approached (he will be 18 next September) Peter grew away from the influence of his uncle...
...ratify a Concordat with the Vatican, placing the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia on equality with the entrenched Orthodox Church. The congregation of 5,000, largely women and girls, closed in behind the procession, sang hymns and prayed, as it moved through the streets to the Church of St. Sava. Reaching the centre of Belgrade, they faced double ranks of gendarmes, who charged on the congregation. Women fled in terror. The police cracked down with rifle butt and truncheon on the chanting priests. Hoary old Bishop Simeon of Shabatz lifted a heavy silver cross to protect himself and down came...
Divorced. Jimmy Savo (James Sava), comedian; by Mrs. Frances W. Sava, his onetime vaudeville partner; in Reno. She charged that his appearance in the Theatre Guild's Parade (TIME, June 3) had gone to his head...
Governor Ivan Perovitch, of Sava Province...
...resignation in 1909 may also be seen. He was given the Order of the Crown of Italy by the King of Italy, the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun by the Emperor of Japan, the Order of the Crown of Prussia by the German Emperor, the Order of St. Sava by the King of the Serbs, Creates, and Slovenes, the Legion of Honor by the President of the French Republic, and the Order of the Crown by the King of the Belgians...