Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going to be the one to say this is a lie. But I happen to be one of them, and my wife wants to know what is all this about Mae West and me. Now I have never seen one of her moving pictures. Honest and cross my heart. I have told my wife this, too, but she just wags her head in a kind of "You're not kiddin' me, Brother" fashion and says she knows what she saw in a magazine...
...traveler, Yorkshireman Eric Knight is no exception to the rest. As a writer he bristles with exceptions, the main one being that he has uncovered in a neglected corner of England's industrial back yard-the Yorkshire textile mill country-material for one of the sturdiest novels to cross the Atlantic this year. English critics have compared Song on Your Bugles with the work of a diverse list of writers ranging from Thomas Hardy and George Eliot to A. J. Cronin (The Stars Look Down); readers are mostly right who take such miscellaneous comparisons to mean that the author...
Since 1912 Arizona has had a law prohibiting freight trains of more than 70 cars from passing through the State. Thus the Southern Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, as their long strings of refrigerator cars approached the Arizona border, had to split them up to cross the State. In 1929 the two roads estimated that the law was costing them $1,000,000 per year, started court action to have its enforcement restrained. In due time a U. S. District Court gave ear to their plea, finding the law useless except as a "make-work" measure and interfering...
...thought up the oath after attending a Nazi meeting: "I wish to see every boy passing into manhood take this serious oath. . . . He may come here to my church and he will be welcome. ... I want Christian young men and young women on the march again, with the Cross and Old Glory leading." At week's end Minister Colony said 300 young men had joined his newest movement...
...Church of St. Sava. Reaching the centre of Belgrade, they faced double ranks of gendarmes, who charged on the congregation. Women fled in terror. The police cracked down with rifle butt and truncheon on the chanting priests. Hoary old Bishop Simeon of Shabatz lifted a heavy silver cross to protect himself and down came a rifle butt, smashing the cross against his head. Blood pouring from his face, he was carried off suffering a brain concussion. Sacred emblems were snatched from priests' hands, banners torn to shreds before the procession scattered...