Word: agelong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than prepared to vote in a parliamentary election last week for the first time in their lives. By the millions they were up at dawn, swarming around Spanish polling places. Nuns especially turned out en masse to vote against the Socialists who have so cramped the revenues and agelong privileges in Spain of Mother Church. Amazingly, hundreds of wives of Spanish grandees and nobles who have been living fearfully abroad boldly returned, bringing their husbands in many cases, to vote as their consciences commanded. All over Spain the arrival of a priest to pop his ballot into a voting...
...Feng and Chang are Northerners. North and South China are agelong foes. But last week Southerner Chiang Kaishek, President at Nanking, could at least boast that he had broken and hurled back if not destroyed the armies of Yen and Feng which last spring seemed bent on his extermination. Next spring will be another spring...