Word: crosse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alternate red and white stripes to signify the blood and bonds of Christ. Chasuble. This (Anglican Church) garb is a heavily embroidered circular garment, sleeveless and to be slipped over the head, made of moiré silk preferably. Over the shoulders and down the spine, spreads a magnificent cross in the shape of the Greek letter ψ. This garment is quite the same in the Roman and Eastern Church. Dalmatic and Tunicle. This is a sort of fancy kimona with a slit up both sides flashed with fringes. It is flowered with embroidery. Surplice, which was at first an undershirt...
...That Captain Otto C. Dowling, who was in command at Lake Denmark, be awarded the D. S. C.: that the Navy Cross be awarded posthumously to designated men of the Navy and Marine Corps who lost their lives in the disaster; that the Navy Cross be awarded to Private Casmer N. Kensick of the Marine Corps...
When the World War broke, she, the 49-year-old matron of a medical institute at Brussels, transformed the institute into a Red Cross hospital. Moved by the plight of the British, French and Belgian wounded under her care, she conspired with Prince Reginald de Croy to smuggle into Holland numerous Allied soldiers for whom he contrived to forge passports. Arrested by the German Military Police, she confessed to abetting the escape into Holland of some 175 Britons, Frenchmen and Belgians of military...
...German court martial in Belgium for "recruiting" as opposed to "espionage." Within a few months Allied billboards were o'er-plastered with posters showing a brute-faced German officer commanding a phalanx of soldiers to fire upon a youthful, blooming defiant girl in the costume of a Red Cross nurse. The caption: EDITH CAVELL NEXT...
...clear image (keep the ink from smearing) it is necessary to make the plate a mass of tiny points, whose size and proximity determine the value of the tone, the sharpness of the lines. This mass of points is obtained by photographing the copy through a "screen", or criss-cross system of finely ruled lines. The closer together these lines are, the smoother and harder must the paper be that is to receive their result in ink. Thus, pictures in newspapers are made with screens having 60 lines to the inch; pictures on paper with an ivory-like finish have...