Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...governor of Canton, had been executed-and there were newspapers to prove it. "Fate leaves me no alternative!" cried grizzled Guarantor Wu. "For my worthless neck the cord!" Presently there were Chinese "Extras!" on the street with news that Wu had committed honorable suicide; and then before long there were "Extra Extras!" screeching that General Li had never been executed at all; but everything came out all right, because almost at once "Extra Extra Extras!" were out with the news that Li had been cut down before he was quite hanged.* In other words, the revolutionary situation in Nanking, last...
Luckless merchants of Hankow were "assessed" (robbed) of $2,500,000 to be used by the Wuhan generals in carrying on their civil war. Before Marshal Chiang left Nanking he tapped the Nationalist treasury for $5,000,000. Prognostications were for a long-drawn war of skirmishes, possibly to be fought to a finish in the southern provinces near Canton, a region thus far comparatively unplundered by China's peripatetic militarists...
Hearst Curtis Coolidge Long Schuler...
...editors, one was stocky Ray Long, whose April Cosmopolitan appeared early in March galvanized by a Coolidge-penned story, swift, personal, moving. The other was Loring Ashley Schuler, whose April Ladies' Home Journal also carrying a Coolidge-penned story appeared only last week. The Schuler-Coolidge story was, of course, dulled because antedated by the Long-Collidge story. But what really killed the Schuler story was Author Coolidge himself. In the Cosmopolitan he was dynamic, in the Ladies' Home Journal he was tedious, general, rambling...
...story about Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. had been printed not long before (TIME, Feb. 25). Soon Mrs. Christie wrote her thanks to TIME, and the letter too was printed. The press picked it up, sent it broadcast. Editors in far-away cities editorialed. The alert Minneapolis Star sent a pleasant photographer who snapped a very good likeness ?the one used by nearly all the rotogravures...