Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Senate trial was balked, the Governor, in a white linen suit, held a reception in his office beneath the Senate Chamber. Admirers swarmed about, demanded his autograph. He gave it thus: "Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana by the grace of the people...
...skylight and the descending fragments fell through a shaft upon the people seated in the waiting room three floors below. Plaster showered from walls and ceilings. A heavy yellow gas poured through the building. Doctors, nurses and patients sniffed it and fled. Some seated in chairs took a long breath and died without moving. Some reached the windows, prepared to jump, but billows of gas enveloped them and they fell back dead. Others succeeded in leaping from the first and second story windows. Some limped away. Some lay writhing in agony and died upon the lawn, for the gas followed...
...They're all gassed. It's film gas," he cried on seeing the victims. "Clear the way. Give them more air. Have we oxygen enough? Firemen, more firemen!" Dr. John Phillips, another of the founders of the Clinic left the wrecked building after working long among the victims. He started to walk home, collapsed...
Chairman Hubert Work of the Republican National Committee paused in his inspection of old Paris churches last week long enough to reveal his solution of an ancient political problem. To run Republican campaigns "without resorting to empty promises or breaths of scandal" Dr. Work will remove his activities from Washington, population centre of politicians, and occupy rented offices in Denver (his home). From these he is prepared to start the Hoover second-term movement at once...
...ball twice. Thus she broke a woman's record for St. Andrew's. By lunch time Golfer Collett was two up. But Miss Wethered, after a lunch of salad and cold chicken, had not lost her confident one-sided smile. Her drives were long, her irons had sting. Miss Collett suddenly became nervous, uncertain. Calmly Joyce Wethered advanced to lead. It was on the 15th that she definitely stopped the last Collett attempt to win back the morning's lead. Glenna Collett had taken a brilliant four. Miss Wethered had to sink an 18-foot putt...