Word: saviors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John XIII: 4, 5, 12, 13, 16, 34. On Maundy Thursday (the Thursday before Easter), "Maundy" being derived from the Latin "mandatum" (commandment) and referring to the "new commandment" given by the Savior. James II was the last English monarch to perform the rite of washing his subjects' feet; but since the time of Charles II "Maundy Pennies" (especially minted without milled edges) have been distributed by the Lord High Almoner. In all Catholic countries and at the Vatican the rites of Maundy Thursday are elaborately observed, although the ritual varies
...Nephew of encyclopedic-minded Viscount Haldane, lord chancellor of the Ramsay Macdonald (1924) Labor cabinet; author of Daedalus and Callinicus in the widely-read "Today and Tomorrow Series" of prophetic essays (E. P. Dutton & Co.); prophet of the extinction of agriculture (by synthetic foods); savior of child life by his discovery of ammonium chloride as a cure for convulsions...
...commend to the consideration of all Protestants the question whether they will not more certainly honor Christ as their Savior and King by faithfully adhering to the truth of the Gospel and conforming their lives thereto than by joining in the celebration of a mighty festival marked by 'magnificent processions' and outward 'ceremonies'?" By unanimous vote the Council decided to appeal to all other Protestant bodies to abstain from taking part in the new Feast...
...firemen are used to large heroisms. They climb precipitous buildings like human flies and plow through gallons of smoke, happy if they can manage to stifle therein. So it probably was a poignant sorrow to find embowered in the snowy branches only a tabby with three kittens. Nevertheless, their savior, with statesmanlike good humor handed them gently down. While, for compensation, the Herald manifled the deed by use of simple mathematics. It lauded the firemen for a single-handed rescue of thirty-six lives...
...subjected practically every other Sunday to a moral fight-talk by Dean Charles R. Brown of the Divinity School, who once in a moment of ventriloquistic inspiration impersonated the Savior and has since been known as the 'Ecclesiastical Barnum...