Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...During the War he was on the bridge of the transport Minnehaha when it was torpedoed off the Irish coast. The ship sank so rapidly that it literally shot out from under its Captain's feet. He calmly swam about, assisted twelve wallowing survivors into lifeboats. Then, through long grey hours he bobbed about in icy water, blowing air from his huge lungs into a leaky life preserver, until finally he heard the drawl of a familiar voice, "Oh I say, Claret, is that you?" The voice was in command of a British destroyer which rescued the almost expiring...
...paunchy landlord, was Abe Wise. This Jew locked his bedroom door, touched his "gat" fondly, but offered Marry the hospitality of excellent bootleg, and introduced Josephine Ruska of the husky voice and dark caressing eyes. Marry fell promptly in love, and as promptly forgot the mysterious Jew. Long evenings he spent in the park loving Josephine's cooing chatter and warm caresses. Long days he tramped the streets bearing his optimistic letter of recommendation from the small town paper. Big town papers, unimpressed, turned him down...
Died. Mrs. William H. Martin, mother of John S. Martin, associate Editor of TIME; in Manhattan after a long illness...
Died. Job A. Edson, 74, president for 23 years (1905-28) of the Kansas City Southern Railroad, onetime (at 13) telegraph operator for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern R. R. Co.; of apoplexy; at Long Beach, Calif...
They backed a truck up against Clara Bow's dressing apartment at the Paramount studios in Hollywood. It took a long while to load the truck; and then they drove it away to a storage warehouse. The idea: to get rid of 250,000 letters from cinema-bugs, which had been cluttering Miss Bow's apartment...