Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Also last week Hero Lindbergh was taken for a ride above Hempstead Harbor, Long Island, in a Loening amphibian plane piloted by Miss Eleanor Hoyt, 16-year-old daughter of Broker Richard R. Hoyt...
...would be in favor of State Prohibition if I thought Prohibition prohibited, but I think in the long run except in local communities where the majority of the citizens are in favor of the law, it will be violated...
Last week, Virginia, "the old dominion," contributed to the contemporary scene a revival from its best days, its long-ago, pre-war (Civil War) days. Virginia revived its oldtime Governor's Ball in the Grays' Armory at Richmond. Everything was done, including smilax, minuets and no admission for whippersnappers until after the grand march, to make the affair savor of a vanishing grand manner...
...reason the Astor-Smith relation seemed so strange was, of course, that Politics and Society have long been divorced in the U. S. It is not yet so in England, nor in Virginia. Although she says "Amer-r-rican" like a dowager duchess, Lady Astor was every bit as politic as a national committeewoman or an assistant attorney-general. She drove about her native state admiring the improvements and nodding to all the people her friends hoped would be Democratic voters. She was politic with a very fat traveling salesman who rescued her with his flivver when her car broke...
Professor Lipman believes that the ancient germ spores have been sealed up in minute cases, similar to the cocoons in which larvae rest. It is well known that microbes can live through great heat or cold, and remain quiescent for long periods. But the age of Professor Lipman's rods astounded even him. He duplicated the experiment with organisms from Pliocene rocks, one to two million years...