Word: criss-crossing
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Alfred Emanuel Smith, thrice-elected Governor of New York, was nominated for the fifth- time by the Democrats. Everybody knows "Smiling Al"-he who was born where the crazy, criss-cross shadows of Brooklyn Bridge meet the East Side of Manhattan. Young Alfred was by nature an actor and orator, by trade a seller of fishes in the Fulton Fish Market, when one day in 1896 "Big Tom" Foley, Tammany chieftain, noticed a political gleam in his eyes. Alfred progressed-clerk in the commissioner's office, legislator, speaker of the Assembly, governor, presidential aspirant. The lower East Side sang...
...Alimony Only (Leatrice Joy). Two couples in a criss-cross complication prove that true love under the direction of the heroine will triumph over mercenary ambitions of less exalted members of the cast; prove also how dull such business...
...clear image (keep the ink from smearing) it is necessary to make the plate a mass of tiny points, whose size and proximity determine the value of the tone, the sharpness of the lines. This mass of points is obtained by photographing the copy through a "screen", or criss-cross system of finely ruled lines. The closer together these lines are, the smoother and harder must the paper be that is to receive their result in ink. Thus, pictures in newspapers are made with screens having 60 lines to the inch; pictures on paper with an ivory-like finish have...
Smart tricks are in the Dartmouth bag: a triple pass, executed with the polish of a fortune-teller's shuffle; criss-cross plays that befuddled the Harvard backs as much as if they had seen Halfback Oberlander (Dartmouth) take a rabbit out of his helmet. Dark fell before Harvard's last frantic forward pass slipped through groping butterfingers to the ground. Score: Dartmouth 32, Harvard...
...precise rectangular criss-cross of streets that is Mexico City popped myriads of firecrackers, detonated cannon crackers as bulkily potent as an elephant's wrist. From the oozy slums half sliming into Lake Texcoco rose a clatter of revelry that carried even to aristocratic patios of the Colonia Juarez. Mexico's 115th Independence Day (Sept. 16) had arrived with the dealth-dealing rejoicings that marked an early Rooseveltian U.S. Fourth of July...