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Word: savrola (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1956-1956
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...Matinee Theater (Thurs.3p.m.,NBC). Winston Churchill's Savrola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Nov. 19, 1956 | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

Matinee Theater (Wed. 3 p.m., NBC). Winston Churchill's Savrola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Oct. 29, 1956 | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...Churchill's novel was published, an American of the same name had greater fame.* Few now read the other Winston Churchill's Richard Carvel or The Crisis, good books though they are, and their author said of them what the English Churchill might have said of his Savrola: "I wrote for pleasure or adventure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Man's Plaything | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...Savrola, though, has more than just curio value: it contains a boy's vision of a kind of greatness that the boy grew up to fulfill. Here is not an echo, but the beginning whispers of a voice that was to become mighty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Man's Plaything | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...great Savrola, savior of his country, confronts the "sombre-clad" assassin who has slain the Dictator. The act offends his nobility. "Vile scum!" Savrola cries, and he slashes the culprit across the face with his stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Man's Plaything | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

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