Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...close to his desk on the Senate floor. Another Smith habit is whittling anything he puts his hands on. In 15 years in the same Senate seat he has cut a hole about an inch square in the arm of his chair. As an orator he is given to long words, not always correctly used, and Latin legalisms (hence his nickname). He often talks With a mouthful of tobacco which gives him a "hot-potato" enunciation. On the Senate floor he is an almost indefatigable speaker, winning many a point by sheer persistence. Second only to Alabama's Heflin...
...long-standing controversy over Tacna-Arica has been settled substantially m accordance with
...fruit fly problem rested more heavily at the moment upon Secretary Hyde than it did upon the Board. Florida banks were failing, 24 in a row. A rigid Federal quarantine around the infested areas had imperiled a $60,000,000 fruit crop. Five thousand workers fought the fly. Into long trenches fresh fruit and truck were dumped, covered over with lime and earth as a means of exterminating the pest. Florida's so-called Little People (small growers) were hard hit, lacking as they did resources for such an emergency. Congress had already appropriated $4,800,000 to control...
...only a tradition. They call him the moon man, in the inaccurate belief that he is trying to reach the moon with his missiles. Last week, Tradition Goddard detonated very loudly. From a 40-ft. steel tower he fired his latest rocket, a huge steel cylinder 9 ft. long by 2½ ft. diameter. A new propellant sent it whizzing from the ground. It rose straight up about a quarter-mile. There the fuel seemed to ignite all at once, instead of in a stream, as planned. The roar sent Worcester ambulances and police hunting for tragedy. They found Professor...
William Fox, cineman, was hurrying out Long Island to keep golf appointment with Cinemen Adolph Zukor (Par-amount-Famous-Lasky) and Nicholas Schenck (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), and Cinemactor Thomas Meighan, when his Rolls-Royce collided with a car driven by a Miss Dorothy Kane, overturned, killed the Fox chauffeur, injured Cineman Fox badly. A blood transfusion (one pint) was administered...