Word: crosse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days later, at Christie's famed London auction room, the Imperial Russian nuptial crown- composed of double rows of brilliants, surmounted by a diamond cross-was placed on sale by the Soviet Government, hawked, cried up from an initial bid of $25,000, auctioned off at last to a Parisian jeweler, M. Founess...
...said: "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold...
Nine months later Miss Edith Louisa Cavell was shot by the Germans because she admitted using her Red Cross prerogatives to shelter and further the escape of some 200 Allied soldiers, prisoners of the Germans. The revelation prompted a search for more hidden Allied soldiers. One day a German captain came to search the house of Mme. Belmont-Gobert...
...People recall how flustered Mr. Ford was during his cross-examination in 1919 when he sued the Chicago Tribune for $1,000,000 and received six cents...
Countess Maritza, Criss Cross, The Desert Song, lolanthe, The Nightingale, Oh, Kay!, Peggy-Ann, Pirates of Penzance, Queen High, Scandals, Bye, Bye, Bonnie...