Word: crosse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambridge Chapter of American National Red Cross has inaugurated a membership drive among students of the University as part of the Annual Roll Call campaign, it was announced yesterday by Stoughton Bell '96, director of the local organization. The movement has been endorsed by the Student Council, though they are not actively engaged in the campaign...
...work of the Red Cross in peace times consists of aiding disabled veterans of the World War and sending immediate relief in cases of disaster or emergency. During the last year vital aid was given in 90 catastrophes ranging from tornado and fire to mine explosion and earthquake. The peace time purpose of this organization is given in the Congressional Chapter; "To continue and carry on a system of national and international relief in time of peace and to apply the same in mitigating the suffering caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods and other great national calamities, and to devise...
...Creightons probably will be startled at the first interviews with prospective servants, because the half-breeds who will apply will try to show their attainments by talking English or French or German, languages they picked up from former masters. They will cross themselves wildly, swear they are criollos (creoles), but they will be mestizos, sambos, and even mulattoes, distinctions the Creightons will soon learn. These servitors, and people even more wretched, such as the native Indians, live in the southeast section of the city, down towards Lake Texcoco, in huddles of squalid cabins and terraces. Their mortality is terrible...
...sees them at the very doors of the Cathedral whining for alms, and shrewdly searching through their rheumy eyes the charitable potentialities of the stranger. At the Cathedral, too, the stranger from the U.S. will note the peculiar fashion in which the natives, who are mostly Roman Catholics, cross themselves. They make the regular gestures of the cross, then tap the nape of the neck...
Died. John Harling, 93, a member of the famed group of British soldiers who charged the Russians during the Crimean War and were immortalized by Poet Tennyson in "The Charge of The Light Brigade," recipient from the hands of Queen Victoria of the Victoria Cross; at Quincy, Mass., in the night...