Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With such adjectives educated Southerners, gathered last week at the University of Virginia's Institute of Public Affairs, denounced the South's labor conditions. Southern industrialists were excoriated for working women and children long hours, were criticized for opposing unionization, were advised to take warning from upheavals in the textile mills in the Carolinas and Tennessee (TIME, April 15 et seq.). Chief critics were West Virginia's W. Jett Lauck, chairman of the Bureau of Applied Economics, and Virginia's Bruce Crawford, Norton publisher. Declared Publisher Crawford...
...compared with the mountain homes from which they came. . . . You are dealing with a backward people who had to learn industry from the ground up. . . . Perhaps children do work, but in juvenile vagrancy North Carolina is so far ahead of Ohio there is no comparison. . . . The hours may be long and the pay small but [the textile industry] is a most highly competitive industry. There must be a profit in any industry or it will cease to exist. . . . Unionization is not the universal and complete panacea the American Federation of Labor would have you believe. Anyway, the unions aren...
Lately U. S. Indian agents, weary with much swamp-chasing, returned to Washington, reported only the slowest progress in their century-old attempt to corral the Seminoles. Asked Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur: "How long have these Indians been taking care of themselves?" "As long as we have known anything about them," was the reply...
...first minstrel to get down on his knees when, in the chorus of a song, he came to the word "Mammy." Now a multimillionaire, third* richest actor in the world, he remains capricious, moody, fond of asserting his independence and of practical jokes. He likes to take long motor trips without planning them, starting at night for some distant point and singing on the way. His companions are usually less important showpeople who laugh at all his jokes. He gives money to beggars, is shrewd at driving bargains, has been known to refuse several thousand dollars to sing for five...
...once looked so long and ardently in the window of Scribner's Manhattan bookstore that a clerk stepped to the door and invited him in. Poor, shy, the boy hesitated, but the kindly clerk inveigled him to an inner room, laid before him the very window display at which he had been gazing-a copy of the works of Chaucer, designed and made at William Morris's famed Kelmscott Press, with typography as virile and rich as the pungent medieval poetry which the letters spelled out. The boy lingered while the clerk drew many another fastidiously wrought volume...