Word: savoy
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...seem to have better claims to authenticity than two other famed relics, the Holy Coat of Trier and the Holy Shroud of Turin. The Holy Shroud of Turin, an ancient piece of linen cloth in a silver casket locked with three silver keys, has belonged to the House of Savoy for 500 years. In 1898 it was the centre of a bitter controversy when art-historians suggested its outline of Christ's body was painted by a French artist in the 14th Century. Guarded day and night by six stalwart carabinieri, its three weeks' ostension last year drew...
Preceded by European legends of fabulous wealth and lavish living, a big black-haired Briton and a little, grey-haired German arrived in Manhattan last week to do business in frozen German credits. Lieut.-Colonel Francis Norris and Siegfried Wreszynski established headquarters at Manhattan's swank Savoy-Plaza Hotel. "We don't take all the business that comes to us," they declared to reporters. "Perhaps $5,000,000 would be too small. It is just as much trouble to handle $5,000,000 as $100,000,000." They had, they boasted, liquidated a total...
...emergency." Second critic was William Randolph Hearst, who in a radio broadcast from Los Angeles, after praising the President's intentions, condemned NRA practices by parable. Said he: "Indeed, the plight of business has been not unlike that of the young woman in the comedy act of Savoy and Brennan...
...Sure,' said Savoy, 'but wasn't she the fool to come...
...death to see that France is at last getting it in the neck. Paris has for many years been fattening on Americans visiting there. . . . History will show that when France is in power there is always trouble." At a dinner of radio manufacturers in London's Hotel Savoy. Edward of Wales prefaced a toast as follows: "Our tastes are not all alike. . . . Our moods change from time to time. One minute we may feel like a symphony orchestra, another we may possibly listen to a public speech ... or on the other hand it may be important to know what...