Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headquarters for a profitable national business in hocus-pocus for race-prejudiced joiners: the Ku Klux Klan. Since the war, it has been no secret in Georgia that the Klan was trying to come back in a big way. In the past eight months there have been cross-burnings atop Stone Mountain. But secrecy is a part of the Klan's appeal-and the Kluxers kept their affairs to themselves...
Stone Mountain was well lighted: cans of inflammable fuel had been placed in niches in its rounded mile-long face, to form a fiery cross some 300 feet high. It was visible for many miles...
When one pine-marked trench was opened, Red Cross girls descended, pawed over 250 corpses so decomposed that they were no longer horrible. They called to men with notebooks: "One handkerchief marked with a K, one pair of glasses." Then, enthusiastically, "Here is his passport, his name is Piotr Kowalski." In another trench was all that was mortal of Mieczyslaw Niedzialkowski, a Warsaw Socialist editor who had loved strong argument and strong drink and who, in 1939, had organized the workers' brigades that helped defend his city. Last week the workmen built him a little coffin and laid...
...Copyright 1945 by Cinephonic Music Co., Ltd., 100 Charing Cross Road, London. Written and composed by Eily Beadel and Nellie Tollerton...
Died. Rear Admiral James Duncan MacNair (retired), 71, senior ranking Navy Chaplain, holder of the Navy Cross for heroism under fire (with U.S. Marines at Belleau Wood in World War I); after long illness; in Brookline...