Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beatified plutocracy by glorifying parsimony; a man who defied untoward events by ignoring them-him they saw as a hero and blinked his warts and scars. So in the white light that beats upon a throne the minor vices of a President sometimes at long range become his major virtues in the public...
...make the cash offer more attractive, the Treasury announced that no other long-terms bonds would be offered in connection with the Third Liberty Loan...
...Love, a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Texas, who said: "As between chronic corruption and acute corruption, I prefer the acute. I want strongly to turn the rascals out, but I am just as strongly opposed to turning Tammany Hall in. I intend definitely to vote against Smith. ... As long as I live I am going to stay in the Democratic party...
President of France Gaston Doumergue stood like a florid Neptune on the bridge of the destroyer Jaguar, so-called fastest war boat in the world. Steamed past the Jaguar in a double line six miles long 80 war boats, of which 42 have been completed since the close...
Prince Youssoupov boasts that he finally drew a revolver and put shot after shot into Rasputin. Even then the period before Death came was so appallingly long that the Grand Duke Dimitri is said to have rewound a phonograph 20 times in an effort to keep up the morale of all concerned. He later remarked with a shudder...