Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese soldiers moved up the Yangtze on transport ships to aid the 180,000 already engaged in the campaign. Most notable temporary Japanese success last week was the cutting of the Hankow-Peking Railway, about 100 miles north of Hankow, by Japanese cavalry which had completed a 200-mile cross-country drive. Last month the Japanese command boasted that Hankow would be taken by October 1. Last week Chinese resistance had so stiffened that few neutral observers believed the city could be occupied before next month, some believed the Chinese could hold out until the year...
...Families of men who received the Military Cross in any of these four wars...
...capitalize the pronouns referring to Jesus Christ; arranges the text by paragraphs, not by numbered verses. Typical revisions: "desert" for "wilderness" in the passage I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness; "wine" for "vinegar" in the description of the last moments of Christ on the Cross...
Gabrilowitsch himself she depicts as good-natured and talkative, a shrewd but generous man, a violent stickler over restaurant bills but an open-handed charitarian. When the U. S. entered the World War, he promptly arranged to give half his income to the Red Cross. Yet he was so enraged at being overcharged ten cents in a railroad diner that he spent days brooding and writing letters of protest to the company...
...Devil Takes a Bride (by Joe Bates Smith; produced by Montgomery Ford) makes the Brooklyn of 1876 a pretty sinister spot. A young Brooklyn lady is kept virtually a prisoner by a father who is a cross between Mr. Barrett of Wimpole Street and Elsie Dinsmore's papa. But just as the audience's heart begins to bleed for the lass, she herself turns out to be a cross between Lizzie Borden and Lady Macbeth, orders her suitor to kill the old man. When he accidentally kills somebody else, she calmly gets father hanged for the murder...