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Word: crosse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Instantly Premier Mussolini despatched a Red Cross detachment of two officers and ten soldiers to aid the rescue work at Durazzo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Spurious Earthquake? | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...melancholy seized he, as I reflected that I should probably never see again Hamida's genial grin, or again witness Edda's barbaric feats of skill with gun and dagger; but, as the brazen sky cooled and paled. I offered a silent prayer that once more our paths should cross...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumnus Tells of Raids, Escapes, and Revelry in the Sahara Desert | 1/8/1927 | See Source »

...cross was erected in honor of the marriage of Victoria, the Princess Royal of England, the Kaiser's mother, to Frederick, the Crown Prince of Prussia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Papist Symbol | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...British mothers were widely vexed at the thought that they had taught their children a rhyme about a cross put up to honor the onetime Kaiser's mother. Well posted fathers might have explained: "The original Banbury Cross was torn down by the Banbury Puritans in 1610 as a detested Papist symbol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Papist Symbol | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

Next day penny "spilliwobbles" sold like hot cross buns on Good Friday. Shrewd, the makers of the "spilliwobble" promptly brought out a de luxe priced model for rich "spilliwobblers" priced at one guinea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spilliwobble | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

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