Word: crosse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four months ago, in April, the ram-swollen Mississippi River began to leap from its bed. Result: "the greatest national calamity since the Civil War"-a crawling sheet of water that left few dry spots between southern Illinois and the Gulf of Mexico. Last week the American Red Cross announced that all was not yet dry in the Mississippi Valley. Some 170,000 acres are still under water; 130,000 in Louisiana, 21,000 in Mississippi, 10,000 in Arkansas, 8,500 in Illinois. The Red Cross is at present providing food, clothing and shelter for 130,000 destitute flood...
...writer would, however, undertake to try conclusions with any ordinary amateur boxer or wrestler, would gamble on his ability as a fisherman, and if actually necessary take a hand in a free-for-all fight. He would not, however, be a contender in a tennis match, golf game or cross country run, for the reason that he has had no taste or training for the latter trinity. The President knows he is not a bronco buster, and further knows that he is needed as President of the United States. While I am a Democrat I have always admired Coolidge...
...President thought that the U. S. should honor the Chamberlin flight as impressively as the Lindbergh flight. He hoped it would be legally possible to confer the Distinguished Flying Cross on Mr. Chamberlin. (Mr. Chamberlin is a civilian but would be eligible to the Cross by joining either an army or navy reserve corps. So, presumably, would Mr. Levine...
...most popular young men in the U. S. began to visit around the country, at first in very grown-up long trousers, later in more grown-up short ones, with a flaming Swiss Guard's cap during the War (when he helped get $150,000 for the Red Cross) and a smile that grew broader and readier as he filled out, steadied down and began to win the biggest tournaments?Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of golf and Atlanta...
...urchin and a policeman in comic argument. He noted "sombre men with the blessed Red Cross on their arms," with stretchers ready for emergencies, which soon arose. "A youth of fine features and clear eyes" went suddenly mad, presumably with grief. "He bellowed horribly. He stretched his hands like the claws of a leopard and leaped upon one of the guards, screaming." They carried him off. The crowd followed the coffins...