Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although Shansi has long since federated with the Nanking Nationalist Government, Marshal Yen has delayed coming to Nanking, giving a typically modern alibi-"appendicitis" (TIME...
...Council of the League of Nations; and why she withdrew from the League when this legitimate aspiration was denied her (TIME, June 21, 1926). Shrewdly the statesmen of Brazil claim that the League of Nations will continue to be dominated by a selfish little gang of European states, so long as no American nation and no Asiatic nation except Japan is permanently seated on the Council...
...last and continuing Brazilian boom crop is coffee. Some 15,000,000 132-lb. bags are exported yearly, over 7,000,000 to the U. S., and a mere 20,000 to the tea-addicted British Isles. Seventy per cent of Brazilian exports consist of coffee. So long as the bean is crushed and drunk, the ideal-for-coffee-growing southern states of Brazil will remain rich-if overproduction is avoided. During the overproduction crisis of 1906 the Government of Brazil bought and held 8,500,000 bags of coffee, lest the market be gutted. Unlike most such desperate measures...
...play in them, and gradually abandoned the tonal for the graphic art. He painted ornamental screens full of bearded Russians of red-coated huntsmen with filigrees of bugles and hounds. But the New Yorker encouraged his satiric sense and he found his metier. Last year he married Lois Long, onetime night club and restaurant expert of the New Yorker. They have a small daughter...
...states, "have been principally pursued in dark alleys. ... I met with overnight success which ended the next morning. ... I have an oil painting in the Yale permanent collection, where no one will ever see it. ... At the age of three I was seduced by an old lady with a long grey beard...