Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wistfully toasted the memory of the finest escapist of them all, Classmate Richard Halliburton, lost at sea seven years ago as he followed his Royal Road to Romance. Old grads glowing too gloriously were put to bed by 500 helpful undergrads-some in sheetless cots lent by Red Cross Disaster Relief...
...invites Catholics to St. George organization meetings, works in close collaboration with the Catholic police chaplain. Nevertheless, he earnestly says: "The way to win a man or a woman-or a church-is to fight." Last week, looking more like a Catholic priest than ever behind his gold pectoral cross, he added: "The other day I converted my 95th Catholic...
...general denial of allegations of Mrs. Jean Bullitt Darlington that the University is responsible for the loss of her alleged Rubens masterpiece, "Descent from the Cross," was filed Wednesday in Suffolk Superior Court by Harvard officials...
Clementine Churchill, wife of Winston, became Dame Clementine-a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, for her Russian relief fundraising...
Heinrich Himmler, who in life looked like a cross between a wasp and a pig, looked different in death. His death mask (see cut), taken near Lüneburg, Germany, after his suicide (by swallowing potassium cyanide), might have been mistaken for that of a daft and drunken Silenus...