Word: crossings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prime Cavedweller, for example, is Miss Mable Thorp Boardman, Secretary of the American Red Cross, whom (the saying goes) Edward of Wales once mistook for his royal mother. Another Cavedweller is Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, who drives about in a victoria, wears plumed hats, prefers foreigners, particularly Italians. A third Cavedweller is Mrs. Richard H. Townsend possessed of a Pennsylvania R. R. fortune. She has a monster Queen Anne house at Massachusetts & Florida Avenues. She bought for her daughter, Mrs. B. Sumner Welles (Senator Gerry's onetime wife) a $600,000 Russian pearl necklace...
...selfish and the sentimental, to the sacrificial. Very often a feeling of being sentimental toward Chris tian things covers a selfish attitude. We take it for granted that because we can feel, we have thereby the facts that under lie Christianity. The fact that underlies Christianity is the Cross ? that is the attitude we should take toward life...
...have long theorized over the hybridization of Hominidae and their cognate Catarrhini (turned-down noses) the Simiidae. Such cross-breeding would be a test of evolution. If children resulted, that would show that the two anthropoid groups were nearer each other than evolutionists at present believe...
...cross the Arctic Ocean by submarine, scooting under ice floes, surging up at ice lakes, was the plan voiced in Manhattan last week by Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Arctic-Antarctic explorer. For ten years he has nursed the project...
...July the Arctic is clotted with ice, not frozen over. Every 25 miles or so are lakes amidst the ice cakes. With a crew of twelve men and oxygen to supply them under water for 48 to 60 hours if necessary, Explorer Wilkins believes he can cross between Spitsbergen, Norway, and Point Barrow, Alaska, within three weeks...