Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Americans know that Thomas Alva Edison invented the "Kinetoscope"; and Frenchmen know that Louis Lumière invented the "Cinematograph." Experts still wrangle over which of these inventions was the more basic; but grizzled Louis Lumière has long since ceased to care. Interviewed last week in Paris he barely condescended to observe: "My. brother Auguste and I looked upon our invention as a novelty, capable of offering distraction for a few moments only. . . . The Americans have taken a toy and made it into a trade. . . . Primarily I am a chemist. I have little or no time...
...everyone knows that it is not really his own speech which the King reads, but Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's speech. And everyone knew, last week, that on the previous day the great Liberal peer, Viscount Grey of Fallodon (Foreign Secretary from 1905 to 1916, had ended his long political silence, had risen like a disturbing, provoking ghost, and had bitterly flayed the Conservative British Government for concluding with France the recent and notorious naval and military agreement or Pact (TIME...
Vaguely he began an extemporaneous address, urging the people to be calm and ignore firebrands who wanted to proclaim a Soviet State. Gradually the magnetic fervor of the crowd fired Socialist Scheidemann. Suddenly he found himself shouting: "Long live the German Republic...
Most, if not all, of these persons have been hounded by Bratiano secret agents for years. They have seen ballots cast for their candidates torn up and burned by the Bratiano police. Today their turn has come at long last. Down Bratianos: up Peasants...
Then, balancing a limp-plumed bonnet, in stalks Beatrice Lillie to be jostled by a bus queue for five minutes of mute martydom, wherein the only betrayal of her cold, furious resentment is a sublime, rancid smirk, and at long last a fervent "Taxi!" Nine times in all she appears, and whether it is the channel swimming scene ("Oh, pul-lease!"), or her deceptively wistful "I'm World Weary," or the Paris in 1890 scene ("They call me La Flamme because I make men mad"), she is never allowed to leave the stage until her audience is too weak...