Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Long have certain Harvard trustees, professors, athletic coaches preached the advisability of having several small autonomous colleges united into one large university...
Although the Harkness name has been graven most deeply and often at Yale, it is spread generously among institutions throughout the land. Recently the Albany, N. Y., Medical College received $250,000 from Edward Stephen Harkness. Not long ago he gave $1,000,000 to the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University...
Staccato footfalls beat a brisk tattoo through the city room of the New York World, down the long rows of worn old desks. A big, vociferous typhoon with red hair, blue shirt, trim tailored suit, swept with a round-the-world stride through the office, greeted a dozen reporters by their first names and vanished through a far door, leaving a strange quiet 'behind him. Herbert Bayard Swope, Executive Editor of the World and genius of its flying columns for eight years, was leaving...
...worked with him declared that Renaud was violently anti-Al Smith, while Swope's lusty voice has long spouted praises of that hapless warrior. Renaud, it was said, had never been able to forget, let alone forgive, the Germans. Swope on the other hand is critical of jingo patriotism. And in religious matters, Renaud was described as uncompromisingly Protestant. The Swopian World's news columns were always wide open to the Catholics...
Renaud knows his theatre, a sphere which the World has long sought to reflect with brilliance. Fifteen years ago, while freelancing in .New York, he wrote an article for Harper's on the thesis that there were "Too Many Theaters." In gathering his material he had occasion to interview E. F. Albee, famed theatrical operator. The upshot of their talk was that Renaud went to Philadelphia for a while as manager of the Chestnut Street Opera House. He tried his hand at writing plays. Several were produced, including Betty Behave (Jane Cowl...