Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although truck drivers covering several States are usually intelligent enough to inquire about local regulations, we have today ordered large signs erected at points where major highways cross the State line for the future guidance of drivers of commercial vehicles who, like Salesman Blackton, may otherwise wish to plead ignorance...
Party workers grumbled last year when, after leading his Old Guardsmen aboard the Landon bandwagon even before Cleveland, Boss Roraback violated his lifelong teaching, visited the Democratic State Convention, made a laudatory speech, for their candidate, Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross, former dean of Yale's Graduate School and now, aged 75, serving his fourth term as Connecticut's Governor...
...view was a vast cross section of the Church's journals, copies of everything from the Dubuque Catholic Daily Tribune to the weeklies America and Commonweal, intellectual high for the Catholic press, and the Paulist Fathers' monthly Catholic World. Most professional-looking was the weekly Brooklyn Tablet, whose front page is not unlike that of the New York Times. Oddest was the Catholic Worker, whose editors style themselves "Radicals of the Right," call on employers to recognize workers "not as wage slaves, but as brothers of Christ, members of the Mystical Body...
...John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's three-year-old race horse Flying Scot, ridden by Jockey John Gilbert: the Withers Stakes, feature race of the week at Long Island's Belmont Park; by two lengths, with Charing Cross second. Morning before the race, Flying Cross, owned by Jock Whitney's cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt (''Sonny") Whitney, and also entered in the Withers, fell dead of heart failure while being exercised...
Although the Wildcats have been woefully ineffective to date, bowing before the Holy Cross sluggers 25-0, today's clash will partly determine whether the Mitchellmen can play winning hall without Ed Ingalls on the mound...