Word: crosse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another direction worked the American Red Cross, aided by the French Red Cross. Along the Cours la Reine, the Parkway along the Right bank of the Seine, the Red Cross headquarters were set up. There Salvation Army lassies got ready to dole out doughnuts to ex-doughboys and there arose serried rows of first aid and comfort stations. Throughout the capital the French Red Cross erected first aid stations particularly along the route of the proposed triumphal march...
...young Cyrus Hall Mc-Cormick of Virginia hitched four horses to "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow and a flying machine," and drove with noisy lurchings into neighbor's hilly oat field. Dogs barked, slaves giggled, small boys guyed as the clumsy juggernaut slewed and jolted through a ragged swath. The owner of the oats called a halt. It took the young inventor months to convert anyone but his family to the reaper...
...jack" is a six-legged iron cross about as big as a marble...
Died. Lave Cross, famed baseball player, third baseman for the Philadelphia Athletics who lost the 1905 World's Series to McGraw's New York Giants; in Toledo. Though third baseman, he played his position with a catcher's mitt.- Died. Dr. Edward Wallace Lee, 68, famed railroad surgeon, one of those who attended President William McKinley at the assassination by one Leon Czologosz in 1901 at Buffalo;† at Randolph...
...without contract, haircombs are counted superficial. Besides, there is no counter jab against a 16-inch shell. So the hero, once a cocky pugilist of the alleyways, turns yellow. But later he braces up, rushes a machine-gun nest, falls, comes to in the arms of his Red Cross nurse sweetheart. A delicate operation has been performed upon his shattered arm. Will he be able to use the limb? The audience watches in agonized suspense. Then the orchestra blares forth with "The Star Spangled Banner," the audience jumps to its feet, the hero's arm moves...