Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they lived long enough Edgar Saltus could have typed Imperial Purple on a purple machine and Nathaniel Hawthorne could have related the woes of Hester Prynne with a scarlet fountain pen. To pens, typewriters and kitchen sinks as well as to roadsters, vanity boxes and magazine covers, has come Color...
...short howls of mournful hopelessness. A long rattling crescendo of protesting crashes, And a great voice shrieking like a lunatic with the Christ bug, And one eager eye squinting into the distance, searching out the red, the yellow, the cool green signal lights. The song of the freight is the moan and the broken cry of a woman dying in a train wreck, The clear sharp challenge hurled at the moon by a lonely defiant farm-dog, A nocturne in an unknown key torn by the wind from the throat of a steam whistle in a nightmare, . . . An all-metal...
Five of New York's fields are in Manhattan's close neighborhood. Roosevelt and Curtiss fields are on Long Island, an hour from Manhattan rail and mail terminals. Hadley Field, at New Brunswick, N. J., is also an hour away; and the Teterboro, N. J., port is about the same time-distance. Newark, N. J., with its new, partially completed $7,000,000 port is some-what closer. All are inconvenient to reach. And that inconvenience impedes air travel and even mail service. Air mail is generally slower than train mail between Manhattan and Boston, Albany, Philadelphia...
...native opera, The King's Henchman shot with medieval Saxon moonbeams is the only one ever retained so long as three seasons in the repertoire of the Metropolitan Opera. The Henchman was sung again last week, and out poured another audience filled with that unique combination of patriotism, musical affection, and gratitude for amorous poetry in a language they can understand, which the Henchman was created to supply...
...Husband Langtry for social acclaim climaxed by the openly effusive attentions of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII). Lillie became an actress, enraptured England and the U. S. Her art lacked fire, but people went in droves with their opera glasses. In 1897 Lillie divorced Husband Langtry, long languishing mentally, physically, financially. He died, a year and a half later, in an insane asylum...