Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herrick gave her reasons at length. Meanwhile, reporters found the proceedings less sweet and less sentimental, Our Town getting more and more like the Big City. One noted that Miss Herrick winked at a friend as she slumped back against the wall. One learned that George had many feminine admirers. One discovered an intimate friend of Miss Herrick's, unearthed a long, involved story about Miss Herrick leaving home, getting a job at a big perfumer's, going back home, popping into the friend's house at night and morning in tears. Determinedly, Mrs. Herrick told Justice...
...Roman ancestors of present-day Fascists fought three full-length wars with a first-class Semitic power-Carthage. For 17 years Semitic Generalissimo Hannibal made Italy unsafe for Italians; Scipio, played by Cinemactor Annibale (Hannibal) Ninchi, finally defeated him at Zama, near Carthage. Scipio Africanus reviews this ancient history with Latin enthusiasm, Roman corpses, blazing villas, trumpeting war elephants, clanking swords. Up-to-the-minute double meanings for ardent Fascists: 1) the Semite is still public enemy No. 1; 2) conquered Carthage stood in what is now Fascist-coveted French Tunis...
...South's Confederate heroes were military leaders-Lee, Jeb Stuart, Longstreet, Stonewall Jackson-not Jeff Davis and his Cabinet. The first full-length study of the Confederate Cabinet, Statesmen of the Lost Cause, is by a Yankee. Pulitzer Prize Biographer Hendrick (The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page) makes these forgotten statesmen the biographical find of the year. Individually picturesque, they made still more picturesque diplomatic history. And Author Hendrick gives them a large share of credit for losing the War. If that Yankee judgment seems harsh, what many a Southerner thinks of Jeff Davis and his Cabinet...
...strange Eli team in the first half. They failed to capitalize on obvious breaks, but drove the length of the field on straight football and their own night to a touchdown...
...when the classes first began, their site was in the former Freshman Athletic Building, now used by three was changed to the old Hemenway Gymnasium, whence at length the classes arrived at their present location, a third story indoor Athletic Building room filled with medicine balls, stools, mats, ladders parallel to the floor and walls, and other weird apparatus...