Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sign a treaty binding each other to compulsory arbitration of all disputes. Cannon fired during previous Argentine-Chilean wars and skirmishes were then melted up and cast into a mighty statue: The Christ of the Andes (see Map). On the South American Continent this likeness of the Saviour with Cross is no less esteemed than North America's Liberty with Torch...
Even the Czechoslovak judge seemed uneasy in the presence of a prisoner who looked as if he might spring at any convenient throat. When cross examination began all eyes were fixed upon Bebe, ears strove to catch the answers which he made in thick, ungracious tones interspersed with grunts. It was all so primitive, so fascinating, that no one noticed another Albanian, one Ziga Vuciterna, who arose pantherlike among the spectators, stealthily drew two revolvers, advanced upon Prisoner Bebe with a wild and sudden yell, and opened a murderous double fire of dum-dum bullets...
Most people suppose that the American Red Cross never turns a deaf ear to the appeals of famished, stricken sufferers. When reports were first current (TIME, Feb. 6 et seq.) that 12,000,000 Chinese seem likely to die of famine before next Spring, most citizens of the U. S. confidently left the whole ghastly and appalling problem to the Red Cross. If they thought about it at all, they saw in their minds' eye long lines of Chinafolk, gratefully receiving huge bowls of steaming soup from white clad, starry-eyed young Red Cross nurses. Rude therefore...
...American Red Cross spent $1,214,000 on relief in China. Since then civil wars have been incessant-until the recent proclamation of the Chinese Nationalist State-and, in the opinion...
Judge Payne, the various revolutionary commanders have seized for their own military use entirely too much of the food and money sent to China by the Red Cross and other charities. Therefore it has seemed best to let the thousands of culpable Chinese revolutionary soldiers-and incidentally the millions of innocent Chinese citizens-starve...