Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said, "one of the greatest artists of quartet music, Robert Maas, died.* We owe him a tremendous debt . . . our next number will be in his memory." Then the four fiddlers of the Griller String Quartet played "Consummatum Est" from Haydn's Seven Words of Christ on the Cross; they played it with such intensity, and with so taut a rein on their emotion, that there was not even one absent-minded handclap from the 900 listeners...
...director of her local teachers' association, vice president of the West Virginia N.E.A., an active member of the American Association of University Women and of Delta Kappa Gamma, an education society. She teaches Sunday-school classes and is regularly called upon to help in Clarksburg's Red Cross and Community Chest drives...
...forged the first and second nails, the smith brooded on the fact that a truth-loving and kind man, who had done no wrong known to anyone, was to be nailed to the cross. He finished the third nail and then threw down his tongs...
...taro, on their annual 163-mile pilgrimage to Mexico's greatest shrine. They were well-dressed businessmen, overalled city workers, shoeshine boys, campesinos, Indians from the high sierra. Behind the man with the eggs, Santiago Sánchez walked with arms outstretched, like Christ's on the cross. Indalecio Gómez Romero carried his shoes in one hand, his hat in the other, that stones might rip his feet and the sun strike his head and his penance be more severe. Onesimo Cadena, from the sierra, walked with head bowed. He intended to ask forgiveness for being...
Veronica Reardon was only a little girl when she heard one of her parents' snooty guests say to another: "Oh well, they're not so bad." And the reply: "Well, no, not for R.C.s." When her aunt explained that R.C.s meant Roman Catholics and not Red Cross, Veronica didn't get it; she had always "thought it best to be a Catholic." As she grew up, she discovered that a great house on Long Island and another on Fifth Avenue couldn't protect her from social wounds inflicted by snobbish non-Catholics. She picked up other...