Word: criss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Magistrate Kross decided Spit's criss-crossed viewpoint was the result of having left the slums for a brief taste of fame. She requested Playwright Kingsley, as the man responsible for the play, to report to her chambers. Wary Playwright Kingsley pleaded pressure of work, invited Magistrate Kross to visit him at his home where "we can discuss this issue rationally, as two human beings interested in a third. . . . The only real blame I have is that the play didn't run forever. I will do my best to remedy that the next time." Magistrate Kross adjourned Spit...
...that Steelman Fairless and Labor-man Murray were about to sit down to bargain. The independents were incredulous. Just before the bargaining began, U. S. Steel's President Irvin called up all the independents in person to break the news officially. In terrific agitation the independents started to criss-cross the country with long-distance calls and within less than two hours after the end of the first bargaining conference no less than five independents, led by Ernest Tener Weir's National Steel Corp., had announced wage raises. But U. S. Steel had beaten them to the draw...
...hasty readers of a popular book, as the Hell-Hole of Creation. Actually the high plateau on which Addis Ababa stands and which comprises about half the Empire is suited in climate to the taste of an ordinary U. S. citizen although the altitude is trying. Rushing rivers criss-cross the plateau with deep gorges. Transportation of fantastic difficulty is enhanced by unimaginable mud in the rainy season, but the obstacles of Nature on the plateau are in every sense susceptible of being overcome...
...side was his pretty redhaired, 28-year-old wife Thelma, one-time stenographer, whom he married last year. Though he still owns land in 7 States, Mrs. Clements says her husband is now only moderately well-to-do. But they can afford to drive a Lincoln automobile, criss-cross the country by airplane keep up an eight-room apartment. Early this year three Denver Townsendites returned from a mission to Washington to proclaim that Founders Townsend and Clements were not really trying to get their scheme through Congress were simply staging enough of a show to keep the money coming...
...Dickens and a generation after him slept heading toward the north because they thought that they might suffer harm while lying criss-cross to the earth's magnetic field. To insulate themselves from that imagined magnetic effect people stood their beds on glass, "nonconducting" casters...