Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...workmen were given a fortnight holiday. Excavating will continue during the fortnight, but instead of steam shovels and pneumatic drills, trained archeologists will be at work scraping the earth methodically away with garden trowels, ice picks, soup spoons. Fortnight ago the rattling drills of the subway contractors penetrated the long lost torture chambers of the Petit Châtelet. Last week the archeologists, scraping away with their soup spoons, declared that it was one of the most valuable historical finds in recent years...
...bank of the Seine. Its grey twin towers made at once a gate to the city, a fortress, and a prison for thieves and political offenders. Old as was the Petit Châtelet, its winding subterranean crypts and dungeons were even older, and included a portion of a long forgotten secret tunnel under the Seine built when 9th Century Paris was besieged by fierce red-haired Norman pirates. The Petit Châtelet was pulled down in a popular uprising just before the Revolution, its more obvious cellars filled in and forgotten...
...filed 3,000 Frascati pilgrims in unaccustomed dress suits, black vests, white gloves. Each pilgrim grasped firmly by the neck a bottle of amber Frascati wine. One by one the 3,000 pilgrims filed past the Pope to receive a special apostolic blessing and then filed out. Left on long tables, 3,000 bottles stood against the wall...
Ordinary murder brings life imprisonment at the new farm prison on the Isle of Pines. Sometimes long-term prisoners there are prompted to escape. Then they are shot quickly and carefully in the back...
...glad of that, glad the whole War was long over and done with, when he last week took charge of a U. S. flying field named for one of the greatest U. S. aces, Major Edward Vernon ("Eddie") Rickenbacker...