Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Local newspapers (including the Los Angeles Times and Examiner), long foes of labor unionism, continued to suppress news. Day after day visiting newsmen were astonished to see the big vital story twisted and killed...
...long ago [1912], there were about 25 automobiles in Tokyo and one poor airplane that managed to hop about three feet off the ground. Today there are more than 500.000 automobiles in Tokyo, and more than 10,000 airplanes will come to greet me, not to mention one thousand motorboats, all decorated...
Every few months smart Jap Artist Foujita is a Paris sensation. Not long ago he appeared in Deauville wearing leopard skin trousers, grey suspenders, no shirt and a high silk hat. "Temperament" murmured gullibles. "Poseur!" stormed the jealous. The smart Deauvillites voted him jocularly their "best dressed...
Aghast at the price rumor was Godfrey Locker-Lampson, M. P., Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the recently-ousted Baldwin Cabinet. His family had long owned the bust. He had lately sold it to a dealer for "just over $2,500." Said he: ''The firm . . . resold it, I understand, for a modest profit...
...recently vested control of Princeton Theological Seminary in a single body (instead of dual control by trustees and directors) it virtually assured the ascendance of Modernism in the oldest, richest Presbyterian seminary in the U. S. (TIME, June 3 et seq.'). Greatly distressed were potent Fundamentalists, who have long fought to keep Princeton one of the few remaining strongholds of ancient evangelical doctrine. Last week the Princeton Fundamentalists met in Philadelphia, made plans to secede from Princeton, to found a new seminary to teach the ideals which Princeton would presumably no longer foster. More than 70 professors, preachers...