Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next morning Manhattan's papers exulted: "Count de Polignac and 32 Seized Here as Liquor Ring." First developments: the Count was released on $25,000 bail. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman said: ''We have been trying to get him for a long time. He has been suspected of participating in a bootleg ring that has brought large quantities of liquor into the country." The Count de Polignac is in charge of foreign agents for the French champagne firm Pommery & Greno of which the Marquis Melchior de Polignac, the Count's first cousin, is president...
...long-haired Bernarr Macfaddcn founded the Graphic, hired Writer Winchell on a seven-year contract as columnist, dramatic critic. Starting salary: $100 a week, all of which he earned by night...
...Manhattan is a dance hall called Roseland. Here, in a ballroom, wide and long, two orchestras manufacture music which substitutes speed and clamor for melody and merriment. Here, with set faces, dances nightly a band of "hostesses." From vaudeville (where they have failed) they come, from little towns that seemed too slow, from little flats that seemed too small. Dancing is no pleasure to them. Dancing is their business. Be it the breath of a drunken sailor that blows warm past their cheeks or the wit of the dullest tomlinson that assails their ears, they must dance and sometimes smile...
...Grand Salon of the Hotel George V fourteen men blinked uneasily behind a long green table in the blinding rays of sunlamps and arc lights. Mr. Young, chairman and presiding genius of the conference, sat in the middle, on his right Emile Moreau, Governor of the Bank of France, on his left Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament and Boston Lawyer Thomas N. Perkins. On the green cloth in front of Chairman Young were two white blocks of foolscap, two and a half inches thick, copies in French and English of the famed agreement, neatly prepared by Sir Josiah Stamp, head...
...Cabinet continues long in power, its deeds will be watched, its members will be known to the world. Those already famed beyond the bounds of the empire include...