Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dashing beauties of the Danube. At dawn last week two Budapest ballet dancers, Mary Radvanny and Sussanne Winghardy, rivals for the favor of a stalwart young Budapestian, repaired to a clearing in a secluded wood near the city. A friend went with them, carrying a long green baize bag. Soon the clearing echoed with the harsh scrape of steel, the clear ring of blade ion cup hilt. The enraged beauties engaged in no vapid stabbing of the air. Like most able dancers, they had long taken fencing lessons. Panting, with clenched teeth and tousled hair, Mary Radvanny and Sussanne Winghardy...
...long statement to the press, General Calles reviewed his work as a leader of the "Grand Revolutionary Party."* He praised the party for the social and economic advances it had made, criticised it for political backwardness, as follows...
...long-faced Alexey Ivanovich Rykov, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics came a swift and sudden rebuke last week from Dictator Josef Vissarionovich ("Steel") Stalin...
...however, was not yet openly declared. Each side ruefully realized that they were undertaking a good deal more than they cared about. It has long been understood in Nanking that if the Nationalist Government is to survive it must sooner or later exert its authority over Marshal Feng, but they devoutly wished that the Kwangsi rebellion was over before trying to do this. Marshal Feng also realized that the Kwangsi rebellion was not occupying quite so many Nationalist troops as he had expected, that Chiang had over 250,000 troops to oppose his 150,000, that Chiang was making every...
When Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh pores over her multitudinous wedding gifts in the next few weeks she will inevitably look long and often at one of the largest presents, an oil painting. She will see a quartet of dark, florescent women dressed in bouffant gowns, standing amid blossomy garlands. Handsomely, romantically they represent types of Mexican womanhood? Spanish, Indian, Mestiza (Spanish-Indian), modern Mexican...