Word: savioring
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...tradition that in time of great national stress, when the stars show evil portents and the U. S. is in danger, the nation always brings forth a savior, a leader, the Man On the White Horse...
...respects, the Dutch had outspeeded other Europeans in the matter of Santa Claus last week, as they do every year. To strict Calvinistic subjects of devout Queen Wilhelmina it would smack of blasphemy to observe Dec. 25 otherwise than with solemn thanks in church for the birth of their Savior. They figure, however, that Santa Claus, or St. Nicholas, the patron saint of Generosity, was born on Dec. 6, do their giving then. Dutchmen conceive the Saint as a bishop whose ecclesiastic dignity is above lugging presents around in a sack. This is done by his far from humble minion...
...puppet's campaign. Himself a Cantonese, Wang subtly appealed to his fellow Southerners on the grounds that South China, in olden times, was independent. What took the sting out of his subtlety was the fact that South China, in not-so-olden times, was the birthplace of National Savior Sun Yat-sen and the cradle of New China...
...leading nominee for Führer & Savior of the U. S., the Army's retired Major General George Van Horn Moseley last week damned Jews, Reds and the Dies Committee on Un-American Activities whose guest he was. Witness Moseley set a record high for testamentary effrontery. His henchman, Charles B. Hudson of Omaha, set a high for panic by snatching away the General's water glass, lest it be poisoned (see cut). Otherwise General Moseley only rehashed and amplified his earlier, alarmistic mouthings (TIME, April 10), implied that the U. S. Army would be quelling "the enemy...
Clara Driscoll, 58, is the restless, magnetic daughter of a pioneer Texas land baron who left an estate now valued at $10,000,000. She is president of one Corpus Christi bank, largest stockholder of another. She is known as "The Savior of the Alamo" because she once put up $65,000 (later repaid by the State) to keep commercial structures away from Texas' shrine. By the time she married Newspaperman Hal Sevier in 1906, Clara Driscoll had written two novels (The Girl of La Gloria, In the Shadow of the Alamo) and a musical comedy (Mexicana)* which...