Word: sewn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only really successful Crusade was the first, the one Author Lamb tells about: "... a migration, and a journey, and war. All kinds of people joined the marchers, lords and vagabonds, weapon men and peasants, proud ladies and tavern drabs. ... On the shoulders of their jackets they wore a cross, sewn out of cloth, and because of this they were called the cruciati, or cross-bearers." The Turks called them Franks, because most of them, especially in the First Crusade, were French...
Just before Christmas a little white dog whimpered in a St. Louis alley. A woman approached it, found it scrawny and starving, suddenly noticed to her horror that its lips were sewn together with heavy cord. The Humane Society of Missouri was notified. Robert F. Sellar, secretary of the society, declared last week that he had gone to the dog and instantly put it to death. From all over the country, incensed humanitarians wired promises of reward to him who should find the torturer. Last week the rewards totaled $3,000, not including a $500 reward which the Humane Society...
From wall to wall the little trapped ball, hard as a modern golf ball, smaller than a modern baseball-a Turk's head of plaited rubber strips sewn in a membrane of goat-skin-flew so hard that it hurt bare hands. The players took to wearing gloves, then invented and strapped to their throwing wrists a long shallow wicker basket (called cesta). hooked like a giant's fingernail. The length of the throwing arc added speed to the little ball, heightened the game's excitement, sent it back across the ocean with other Spanish improvements...