Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Lorbet of France rendered an arbitral decision which was accepted, on the long-disputed Costa Rica-Panama boundary line. But the terms he used were general. The question was submitted to the U. S. and in 1914 Chief Justice White rendered a decision favorable to Costa Rica. Panama protested. There was dispute and even gunfire as late as 1921, when President Harding insisted that Panama accept the White award. * The white potato (Battata) was "discovered" along with Incas Andes gold etc. etc. by 16th century Spaniards. The potato entered Spain, Italy, Belgium before its supposed home Ireland, whither...
...Long before the noon hour of meeting, members congregated on the House floor to talk, to listen, to laugh, to mill around, to exude cordiality, to slap backs, to wring friendly hands, to encircle familiar shoulders. Two prime conversational topics predominated...
...black, greeted their many admirers. New York's Snell (Rules Committee) stood behind his aisle table, frowning, sharpening a pencil with a blunt watch chain knife. Leader Tilson beamed at his flock and rearranged neatly typed resolutions on blue paper. The galleries, splotched with color, were long ago overflowing. Mrs. Alice Longworth, the Speaker's wife, was there, incognito, because she failed to remove her brown hat and reveal her gleaming hair...
...Britten's reply to Secretary Kellogg was: i) that he had not contravened the President's power over foreign policy, since he did not seek to change a U. S. policy but to further the policy of Anglo-American naval equality long-since laid down; 2) that the Constitution charges Congress to provide, maintain and regulate the Army & Navy, and 3) that he had not violated the Logan Act since the subject for discussion was neither a "dispute" nor a "controversy." "My proposal has to do with peace," Mr. Britten observed...
...such criticism Mr. Britten might have replied that 1) he had long loomed as large on the Naval Affairs Committee as its last chairman, the late Representative Butler of Pennsylvania; 2) that publicity-seeking is not necessarily reprehensible, depending entirely on what you seek to promote, yourself or a good idea, and 3) that one is not necessarily a Big Navy man out of sheer blood-thirst, that Big Navy men might gladly become Little Navy men if all other Big Navy men would join them...