Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor of Texas, as everyone knows, is red-headed Dan Moody, 35. By right of the usual sweeping Democratic majority, he will continue to be Governor for at least two years. And long before he is three-score and ten, he is expected to ask his party to let him do what, in 1928, Smith...
...Warrior. With his Warrior in unhappy defeat, Governor-Elect Roosevelt took small pleasure in predictions that he himself might be the hope of an, at least momentarily, nationally hopeless Democracy. Also, since he had not yet entirely recovered from paralysis of the legs, Mr. Roosevelt could not confidently contemplate long years of public office...
Stretched eastward from Manhattan in the shape of a candle-flame, lies Long Island. Here, in a country made for pleasure, live socially-minded persons who dart to their diversions along concealed and crooked trails, inserted through the woods or strewn upon the shore. Their houses, lying between hills or built above bright beaches, are walled with forests and reticent behind curling drives. Who builds them and makes them beautiful...
When the Prince of Wales came to Long Island he stayed at J. A. Burden's house, which Delano and Aldrich built; they were consultant architects when the roof of the White House needed fixing. The Colony Club in Manhattan is some of their work, as is the institution where girls prepare for membership, Miss Chapin's School which has just opened; likewise St. Bernard's School, and the Knickerbocker Club, where good St. Bernard boys will go if they are lucky. Even Otto Kahn, when he decreed his stately pleasure dome at Cold Spring Harbor...
...Grecian blonde once made tall trouble and men have never forgotten. Long before Christ they knew her as the fairest of all women, the one the Trojan Paris stole, for whom the Greeks fought ten long years. Brave warriors died for Helen. Brave poets since have spent their dearest words on her. She has been Menelaus' Helen, Paris' Helen; Homer's Helen, too, and the Helen of Herodotus, Euripides, of Kit Marlowe, Alexander Pope, Andrew Lang. Recently John Erskine, perspicacious professor at Columbia University, won fame with his Helen refurbished. Last week and for the first time...