Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respects to the Midwest on his return from Notification (TIME, Sept. 3), and having inspected the work that has been done for him there, was content to leave the region's defense to his Chicago headquarters and to Nominee Curtis, who set out from Washington to criss-cross the trails of Smith and Reed for 5,000 miles. Nominee Hoover gave his own attention to the East. Red fire and amplifiers were in readiness for him at Newark, N. J. His Eastern managers redoubled their efforts in very dubious New York and dubious Massachusetts...
...smashups in all the World happen at little crossroads in rural France. For one thing there are no speed laws and barely any traffic. Why then drop below 100 kilometers per hour (62 m. p. h.), just because the perfect road down which one is whizzing must soon cross another? Sacre bleu! If one is a French chauffeur, and if one has waited in the sun all morning at the wheel of a Bugatti or a Farman* then what joy, what exhilaration, when one's fat Spanish employer and a couple of his "little girls" scramble into the tonneau...
...Murray Bartlett, president of Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., holder of a U. S. Distinguished Service Cross for Y. M. C. A. War valor, a Protestant Episcopalian. Reason: Tolerance; "religion has nothing to do with presidential qualifications...
...backcourt boundary, thereby failed to win from Wills the national women's singles championship. After the match Wills rested in the Forest Hills, L. I., clubhouse, resumed play. Paired with Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, she won the doubles title against Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper & Miss Edith Cross. Wills and Molla Bjurstedt Mallory are the only women who have won the singles title five or more times. Mallory won it seven times officially, an eighth time in the 1917 "patriotic" (unofficial) tournament...
George Palmer Putnam, publisher of Charles Augustus Lindbergh's book, We, was so impressed by the success of that book that he said to his friends: "Find me a 'lady Lindbergh.' " Amelia Earhart was found. She became the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an airplane. Last week, she took Mr. Putnam for an air ride from New York to Pittsburgh. Landing at Rodger's Field, her plane struck an unmarked ditch, turned over, was wrecked. Pilot Earhart and Passenger Putnam suffered no injuries. Said Passenger Putnam: "The accident occurred through no fault of hers...