Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little boy clutching the cross was Dean Acheson, who came to believe in a number of things: in having a good time, in the importance of Scroll & Key at Yale, in Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, in Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. But at the moment he believed chiefly in God and in Father. Father was the rector of the Holy Trinity Church...
From his pulpit Father used to deplore "the duckwaddle or bandmaster's style of carrying the processional cross." And when Isaac Wrubel, who owned a clothing store, asked him to take his five sons into the choir and teach them a little religion -any religion-on the side, Father said he'd teach them Isaac's Jewish religion. "The Old Testament is good enough for me," he said...
...Criss Cross (Universal International] is fairly routine gangster melodrama in which the hero (Burt Lancaster) is led into a whole mess of trouble by his alluring ex-wife (Yvonne de Carlo). But it is sharply directed by Robert Siodmak and enlivened with some fresh bits of business. Samples: a jug-nursing old gentleman (Alan Napier) who makes a specialty of planning complex holdups; the robbery of an armored car (in which Lancaster is a guard), a rare sport among real-life or cinema crooks; so much double-crossing that the cast almost needs military maps to remind them...
Earlier in the hearing, Griswold agreed with defense attorney Claude B. Cross, who contended that evidence obtained by the prosecution after Dr. Van Waters was notified of her dismissal should not be accepted. The commission announced that the proceedings must end by March 4. There is no deadline for the commission's final decision...
...Waters' attorney, Claude B. Cross, began the defense argument by attacking several of the charges laid down by Commissioner McDowell...