Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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People digging cellars and plowing fields in France and Belgium turned up, last year, the remains of 3,361 British soldiers. Edward of Wales as Honorary President of the Imperial War Graves Commission saw to it that these heroes, long since given up for lost, were reverently interred in eleven British cemeteries. Last week the I. W. G. C., tireless, diligent and unsung, published its ninth annual report, a monument to the labors of its Permanent Vice-chairman, Major General Sir Fabian Ware...
...course some well-meaning person smuggled a single bunch of violets onto the bier, last week, and they were not disturbed. But there was no music in the Embassy. And there were only, two women-Mme. Salambier, long the Ambassador's social secretary, and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Parmely Herrick. The other 400 persons who jammed to suffocation the largest room in the Embassy were all men, clad in formal mourning...
Ignoring the advice of physicians and the pleading of friends, Mr. Herrick at the funeral of Marshal Ferdinand Foch (TIME, April 1) had taken off his silk hat, tramped more than two miles in the rain, caught a cold which broke down his long precarious health and killed him within five days...
...Austria's progress is blocked," he said, "by a political tension, for much of which the present Government is held responsible, although unjustly. Long-continued agitations and accumulated hatred, which so far as concerns my person would be bearable, have also without reason been cast on my priestly office and my Church...
...When the long official envelope reached President Ignatz Moscicki at Spala, where he had gone for a brief vacation, it appeared to cause surprise, consternation. Soon the flustered President sped to Warsaw, consulted earnestly with the real master of Poland, Marshal Josef Pilsudski, who insists upon remaining technically War Minister, though actually Dictator. Emerging from this conference, poor puppet President Moscicki intimated that the Marshal had again refused to accept the Prime Ministry himself and saw no reason for accepting the resignation of M. Kasimir Bartel, just because he thinks he needs a rest...