Word: crosse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just man and therefore it is never certain whether his great gifts of cross-examination and invective will be employed to prosecute the guilty or to persecute those whose views he happens to dislike. He is a man of deep and reckless prejudices. No one surpasses him as a sincere upholder of those personal liberties which are guaranteed by the Constitution, and yet there are few men in public life who are more cruelly intolerant. He is perhaps the most effective opponent of organized bigotry in the country, and yet his own bigotry is at times almost venomous. He believes...
...foundations of the cathedral, great and thick, have been laid. When the building is completed it will be a large Gothic, cross-walls supported by flying buttresses, a great central tower, two towers at the west entrance, a nave 500 feet long, 95 feet high. Under the apse, which is already finished at the foundation's east end, are three crypt chapels. In one of these, Bethlehem Chapel, Bishops of Washington have conducted cathedral services since 1912. Here are entombed the bodies of Woodrow Wilson, George Dewey, Henry Yates Satterlee (first bishop of Washington) Henry Vaughan (cathedral architect), and others...
Harvard, Yale and Princeton hammered, yawed and pounced to victories over Holy Cross, Brown and Washington & Lee. Harvard hurried through holes in Holy Cross to win 14-6; Washington & Lee hesitated and let Princeton sneak twice between them, 13-0. Yale facing Brown with nine six-footers, was out of reach...
...fell to discussing the forward pass, gesticulated, went to the Polo Grounds to suit action to words. In friendly contest, Friedman, running, threw the ball more accurately at a given target. Dooley, long of arm and flat of hand, seized the ball and threw it from midfield over the cross bar of the goal posts. Friedman tried, fell short...
...read in the Boston Transcript the reprint of your editorial about the music at the Harvard-Holy Cross Game, and I want very strongly to congratulate you on speaking so forcefully, frankly and truthfully as you have...