Word: savior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Savior No other single man in the U.S., including the President, could have done it, but John L. Lewis did. Last week, playing his role as liege lord and savior, he put a $3 billion industry-all of the East's soft-coal mines-on a three-day week...
Once spanked by a Chicago critic for his "gabby scoopings into the gutter," Berle has been startled, touched and filled with a sense of responsibility to find that he has a sudden popularity among children TViewers. Fellow vaudevillians who once resented him now hail him as a savior of the two-a-day. Once such a professional stray that he has never been acceptable to Broadway's Lambs Club, he will be honored this week by a $50-a-plate testimonial dinner (Thurs. 10:20 p.m. E.D.T., NBCTV) for contributing to interfaith understanding (he has played benefits...
...Because," she said, "it celebrates the birth of your savior...
This week, when they kneel on Christmas Eve with the rest of Christendom to celebrate the Savior's birth, the sinners of St. Francis-in-the-Fields will begin their fourth year as a Christian congregation...
...through the play is a constancy reference to the Bible, quoting passages which contradict each other in supporting and denouncing slavery. But in the end it is a misuse of Scripture that brings on Savior Vesy's end: "All these twelve years," he muses, "I give my people hope with the story of Moses. I never tell them Moses never reach the Promised Land...