Word: crosse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mind. He is to obsessed with sex, and sex perversion. "Winesburg, Ohio" was saturated with people, ranging from the philosopher who does not understand his own sexual frustration and so is writing a book to show that all the world is Christ and is suffering on the Cross, to the hotel proprietor's wife who, after a life of scrubbed floors and emptied cuspidors, is soother in the arms of death by the kisses of an understanding doctor. The book is sane and almost completely damnatory, but one is left with the thought that, after all, Sherwood Anderson is hopelessly...
After the "Ask Me Another" peril was finally filed safely away in the waste basket along with the Cross Word Puzzle books it was not evident from whence would come the heir apparent to the honored place on the library table, once held by the sterioptican and family album. The answer came partially with MARRIAGE MADE EASY by Doris Webster and Mary Alden Hopkins (The Century Co., New York, 1928, $1.25). When bridge and conversation fail it is one of those strange playthings which baffle the intelligence and flatter the vanity...
...Washington, Pa.: "Totally blind since she was less than a year old, 13-year-old Mary Grabowsky, second daughter of Walter Grabowsky, a poor miner of Coal Center, this county, walked out of the Washington Hospital today, scarcely able to conceal her delight and asking officers of the Red Cross to hurry her home that she might see her mother for the first time...
...Filled with pity, and remembering his Master's art, a Catholic priest, by taking the girl to the Red Cross, enabled this Mary to see. Great miracle among great miracles was again brought to pass, this time by mundane skill...
...time when the rotating policy was decided upon, Harvard may be said to have had five traditional foes--Yale, Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth, and Holy Cross. The rotating policy has already caused two subtractions from this list. Other honored rivals may also be asked to step aside for a year or two. Or Harvard's rivals themselves may ask to be excused from playing under conditions which they have some cause to consider unstable...