Word: savioring
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...longer can any son of Eli or Nassau deny that Harvard men are the ultimate connoisseurs of what's what in feminine pulchritude. The "savior faire" of the son's of "Veritas" was officially recognized when nine men were asked by the American Society of Beauty Culturists to cast their unbiased glances over numerous contributions to what makes a strong man meek submitted by Wilfred Academy...
...culturally imperative to toast the bride, christen the ship, seal the bargain, speed the friend, salute the New Year, celebrate good fortune, wake the dead, and even symbolize and ingest the blood of the Savior through the medium of alcohol. . . . With so many various forms of culturally approved drinking, the amazing result is that we have so few persons emotionally dependent upon alcohol in some form. The teetotaler is, after all, equally as abnormal from the cultural standpoint as is the habitual drinker. . . . There is definite cultural relativity, and no universally valid generalization can be made as to what constitutes...
...Ally bias to betray our nation into what is already almost a state of war. Today it seems likely that Roosevelt would be defeated in this State solely on the basis of his recent conduct of international affairs. Recently people are saying that Wendell Willkie is the one possible savior in sight...
Third Great Battle. Against Weygand who in the desperate hour walked with spring in his step, Germany sneered in an official statement that it was a commentary on French democracy that for a savior it had to turn to "the illegitimate issue of a Habsburg, namely, of that Emperor of Mexico, Maximilian, who met such an adventurous...
Fulfilling his promise to change methods and men, the Premier, emulating Georges Clemenceau, the "Old Tiger" who, almost singlehanded, organized victory in the last war, took over supreme civil and military power. To Maxime Weygand, the great Foch's Chief of Staff and "Savior of Warsaw" (1920), he gave supreme command of the Army (see p. 23). Edouard Daladier, who as Minister of Defense since 1936 had worked with supplanted Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin, became Foreign Minister...