Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter Ringer (alias Charley Ringer, Franz Rudis, Max Walter Ketter, Charles Long), 39, 5 ft. 6 in., heavy set, broad shouldered, for stealing U. S. mail upon the high seas aboard the S. S. Leviathan last year. A linguist, he conducts novelty shops, cafés, works as a seaman or carpenter. Reward...
...became captor instead of captive, lined the crew along the rail. He debated three plans: 1) to make the guardsmen walk the plank; 2) to fire his own boat and set them adrift in it; 3) to scuttle the cutter with all hands aboard. With himself he debated too long, for the guardsmen rushed him while he pondered. His gun cracked spitefully. Three men dropped to the deck dead-Guardsmen Sidney Sanderlin and Victor A. Lamby, U. S. Secret Service Agent Robert K. Webster...
...official nuptials of Prince Franz (as distinguished from his morganatic marriage) were performed clandestinely some weeks ago at night behind closed church doors in Lainz, Vienna suburb. An anonymous threat of assassination if the marriage took place had been received. Even last week this fear hung over the long-thwarted lovers. Paradoxically both are immensely rich, envied by people who do not understand their years of trial. Princess Elsa is the daughter of an Austrian coal tycoon. Prince Franz is supposed to have inherited nearly a hundred million dollars-not to mention the ancestral Liechtenstein Art Gallery in Vienna, famed...
Startling are some of the many statements quoted from potent Britons, past and present, to show that in unguarded moments even staunchest Imperialists share a measure of Dr. Sunderland's views. For example, as long ago as 1911, Lord Morley, then Secretary of State for India, described the native officials in the Indian Civil Service as men "as good in every way as the best of the men in Whitehall" (i.e. equals of the officials in Britain's own Civil Service...
...into sight. Journalist Von Wiegand radioed: "Land. It is Land's End. It is England. We have crossed the Atlantic. It is one o'clock in the morning, 42 hours and 42 minutes after we left Lakehurst. . . . A peaceful Zeppelin?over England?the first since the War. . . . All day long we have been trembling with excitement...