Word: savioring
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...Harriet has not been long in residence when the outbreaks increase in violence. Fuses are blown, windows smashed, obscene decorations and threats are chalked on the conventual walls; a dummy is found hanging in the chapel. Unable to get to the bottom of the mystery, Harriet sends for her savior, Peter Wimsey, only to learn that he has been sent abroad by an anxious Government. The college jitters get worse as the mysterious campaign grows weekly more sinister. In time's nick Lord Peter arrives. Whether he unmasks the ghost before murder is done, and whether Harriet finally yields...
...unattainable goal. Slowly but surely educated people all over the world are coming around to Mr. Simonds idea of redistribution. Naturally this proposal will meet with ever stiffening resistance, particularly in the "have" countries such as Great Britain and France, but the idea is worthy and may become the savior of peace in the far future...
...Cuban political snarl had at last grown too involved and ominous for Colonel Mendieta. With the beauty of phrase which comes readily to Cuban orators, he abruptly declared: "The Cuban people said when they called me to the Presidency that it would be as the nation's savior. Now I shall again be the nation's savior, if I resign. Hence I am abandoning the Presidential Palace...
...Tramata which has long supplied Lucrezia Bori with the role best suited to her fluttering, enameled charm. Soprano Bori can do no wrong so far as her audience is concerned. As chief collector in the tin-cup campaign she was roundly publicized as the Metropolitan's "Little Savior." Paired with her was big Richard Crooks who sang smoothly, acted with increasing ease...
...afternoon of the Maisonette's opening, the Rev. Vasily Kurdiumoff, portly, bull-voiced rector of the Russian Orthodox Church of Jesus Christ the Savior, went down to the St. Regis, put on his ceremonial blue brocade riza. Assisted by the conductor of his choir, General Sergey Savitzky, he chanted prayers before an improvised altar on which ten candles illuminated an ikon. Then Priest Kurdiumoff presented a loaf of bread and a small silver salt cellar to Mrs. Anne Tiffany, decorator, and to Mrs. Vincent Astor. whose husband owns the hotel. Up to the priest, one by one, filed Russian...