Word: long
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Henry Ford brought out Model T that year, and a year later said he would make nothing else but. He also said: "Any customer can have a car painted any color he wants, so long as it is black...
...time, did Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney-General of the U. S., do-her-bit for Hooverism before an audience of Ohio Protestants. The evening after delivering her message to the Methodists at Lorain (TIME, Oct. 1), she visited a Presbyterian men's club at Warren. A long quotation about Tammany Hall corruption a generation ago was part of the speech. She had looked it up in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. She cried...
...Rochester Alfred E. Smith arrived from the West, took charge of the Democratic convention. Several times he talked over long distance wires to Warm Springs, Georgia, where his good friend and presidential nominator Franklin Delano Roosevelt was mending his health. Roosevelt for Governor seemed necessary for Democratic success in New York, perhaps in the nation. But on advice of physicians Mr. Roosevelt had refused to run. Over the telephone the voice of the Happy Warrior pleaded again and again. Finally the Happy Warrior's great and good friend consented to run for Governor. New York Democracy was jubilant. Royal...
Fritz Kreisler and Ina Claire also came in on the Aquitania-he with pleasant words for Composers Gershwin and Youmans; she with the sentence, "I don't mind who does the singing and dancing, so long as the author gives me plenty of funny lines." She was referring to Nell Gwynne, a musical comedy in which she will appear in Manhattan...
...alarmist reports from the United States that Washington in the note would bang and bolt the door on further efforts at naval disarmament were more than half believed. . . . London agrees that this note is the most happily constructed and phrased diplomatic document that has come from Washington for a long time, and that it deserves rank as a masterpiece...