Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rear Admiral G. F. Hyde, commander-in-chief of the Royal Australian Navy, docked in New York harbor his flagship, the 10,000-ton Australia. His sailors did the city, the shows and Coney Island. He and some of his officers watched polo matches on Long Island. Then the Australia steamed away to pay a visit to the U. S. naval academy...
When he looked up from the telegram, the President seemed to become Feldmarschall as of old. Curt orders fired rapidly at the equerry replaced the ponderous, civilian manner of Old Paul von Hindenburg. The murdered man had been his personal military servant throughout the War, and long previous. Master and servant were born on the same day-four score years ago. They grew up together in the army of Imperial Germany. As President of the Republic, Great Paul von Hindenburg remembered his poor old friend every year with a gift of money, on their joint birthdays...
...last week Albanians woke up in a republic, as usual; but before noon they were shouting "Long Live our King...
...have, that our new ideas are now shared by the great majority of the Mexican people . . .then we must know that the electoral districts in which political or clerical reactionaries might obtain a victory over men representing the advanced social movement in Mexico must be for a long time to come in the minority...
...laughed editorially: "Now it would be idle to deny that when we sent our telegram asking for the 1,000 words, we did so in a very facetious humor. We did not believe that the cartoon had actually caused any excitement. . . . For we have been in this business a long time. We were established May 10, 1883, and forty-five years have taught us a great many things; and as we visualize the scene in the Chicago Daily News office when our telegram was received, it went something like this...