Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...director-in-chief of the New York Botanical Garden, to devote himself to private research in tropical flora. Gardener Britton had nursed a wooded waste to third place in botanical garden fame, to world-known horticultural and botanical exhibits. Exhibits number millions, attendance averages 50,000 on summer Sundays. Long an advocate of planting Japanese ginkgo trees, Gardener Britton is also co-author of a four-volume treatise on cacti...
...noise than usual in this picture but without the effect she gets when she is closer to her audience. She is handicapped by her role as a night-club hostess, by bad songs, by a ridiculous story about her priggish daughter's love-affair with a bibulous millionaire. Long before the rich young man apologizes, the daughter stops being snobbish, and Miss Tucker spreads her thick pink arms to embrace both of them, it is apparent that Honky Tank is one more grotesque souvenir of the earliest manner of the sound device. Silliest shot: the hero insulting Miss Tucker...
Last week in the Vatican a huge intricately carved bronze door, one half of which had been closed since 1870, was slowly pushed wide open. Thus by symbolism, long a power and fascination of the Roman Catholic Church, did Pope Pius XI announce to the world and to the city the consummation of Italy's Church-&-State reconciliation, the ultimate and formal exchange of signed treaties...
...various states). "Laches," which may be a defense where the Statute does not apply, means "undue delay in asserting a right, or in claiming or asking for a privilege." In deciding for the Negro Shriners, the venerable justices pointed out that the White Shriners had been guilty of "long and obvious lapses." While Negro Shriners strutted, rejoiced over their victory, White Shriners were also rejoicing-for other reasons. They had just completed a week of convening in Los Angeles. It was their fifty-fifth annual convention; approximately 100,000 White Shriners had gathered together to make speeches, shake hands...
Industrial dreamers have long enjoyed slumber-visions of a great foodstuff merger. Industrial doers have long pondered specific methods of making such dreams come true. Last week came rumors that the House of Morgan was planning a gigantic food manufacturer's consolidation. Nucleus of this merger was to be Fleischmann Co., of which the Morgan company purchased a large minority interest (400,000 to 500,000 shares) in 1926. Inspiration for working out the merger was provided by the unique Fleischmann daily delivery system. Constituents in the merged company were rumored as Postum, Gold Dust, Corn Products, Campbell Soup...