Word: croix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came back from France a 1st lieutenant, with a citation from Pershing, a Belgian Croix de Guerre, and suffering from the aftereffects of a gassing in the Argonne. He tried teaching, first at Amherst, then at Hackley, where he could be closer to Peggy Zinsser (niece of famed Scientist Hans Zinsser), whom he had met at a Smith-Amherst dance. But teaching was not quite Lew's line. After he and Peggy were married, they moved back to Arizona...
Elliott (As He Saw It) Roosevelt presented himself at the French Embassy in Washington, got the Legion of Honor (Chevalier rank) and Croix de Guerre (with palm) for "outstanding services in North Africa...
Mystical Hard Heads. Sir George F. MacLeod, Bart, was a Winchester-and Oxford-educated captain in the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders of World War I, holder of the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre. He knew that he wanted to be a minister. After graduate study at Edinburgh, he was ordained in the Church of Scotland† in 1924 and was soon assigned to starchy St. Cuthbert's Parish Church in Edinburgh. Uncomfortable in such ultra-respectable Christianity, he switched to Glasgow's famed Govan Old Parish Church, in the heart of one of the worst slums...
Died. Colonel François de la Rocque, 53, founder and fiihrer of the fascistic Croix de Feu party which periodically harassed French governments of the '30s; after an operation; in Paris. He inveighed against "rotten parliamentarian-ism," boldly announced his intention to "seize power," but opposed the Nazis...
Flying down from New Bedford, Mass., Lieut. Colonel William Franklin Smith Jr., D.F.C., Air Medal and Croix de Guerre, found LaGuardia Field all right. After he had let his two engined B-25 bomber down under a 900-ft. ceiling he radioed for permission to go on to Newark. LaGuardia approved, warned him of low visibility (about two miles), concluded, "We're unable to see the top of the Em pire State Building...