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Word: crosse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ride a cock-horse¹ to Banbury Cross...

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

...centuries the town of Banbury in Oxfordshire has been famed for its Cross, its Puritan,² its tinkers,³ its cheese paring4, and its cakes5. Last week the Associated Press brought news...

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

...Banbury Cross, to which many an American youngster has ridden a cockhorse, will be sacrificed to progress...

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

...settlers were reminded of Paul Bunyan's "minktums" and "tigermonks." Natural scientists suspected it was a cross between a lynx and a house cat. Nature lovers recalled that Naturalist Henry David Thoreau, in his book Walden mentioned a "winged cat." It was the pet of a farmer-neighbor, d scribed as "dark brownish grey color, with a white spot on her throat, and white feet, and had a large bushy tail like a fox; that in the winter the fur grew thick and flatted out along her sides, forming strips ten or twelve inches long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Winged Cat | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

Americana, Countess Maritza, Criss-Cross, Oh Kay, Pirates of Penzance, Queen High, Ramblers, Scandals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: List | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

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