Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sagas seldom fail to be interesting, and this account of last summer's ocean race to Spain is no exception to the rule. All the details of the trip over in the winning schooner, the "Elena," a boat only a little more than 100 feet long over all, are told by the daughter of the "Skipper" and owner...
...Standard Oil Co. of Indiana has issued 9,160,000 shares of capital stock. †President E. G. Seubert of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana was mentioned in the Rockefeller letter as a "loyal and devoted" leader. But he had long been considered a Stewart man. Now he may be the crux of the battle...
Before the War, Russia was one of the world's largest exporters of wheat, averaging 4,173,800 long tons yearly. But last year, Soviet Russia was a large importer of wheat, due to: 1) inadequate transportation facilities; 2) to peasant dissatisfaction, and 3) to the total crop failure in 1924. The government now projects a campaign to increase the 1929 planted acreage 8%, to modernize farm methods...
...wife and heir were legally deprived of financial reward. Up to Paris went young Zola, his imagination glittering with the romanticism of Alfred de Musset. He lived a Bohemian life, indolent, unspeakably shabby, a starveling writing silly verses. He took a harlot to live with him, thus ending his long virginity which was to be a jibe in later salons. He became a publisher's clerk, worked ten hours a day. Nauseated with romanticism, he wrote a thousand words daily, part of a projected scheme of novels which would neither gild lilies nor avoid dung. Naturalism was being born. Literature...
Died. Eugenic Cardinal Tosi, 65, Archbishop of Milan; after a long illness; in Milan. His death leaves the College of Cardinals with 33 foreign cardinals and 29 Italian; the first Italian minority since the 14th century schism of Avignon...