Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some of the tobacco workers, for the most part employed by American concerns, have been on strike and the police have taken the same steps to preserve order that the police of any other country would have taken. There has been no serious street fighting, no long casualty list, no mutiny in the fleet and no Communist revolt...
...respective leagues on that day. On that day Leon Allen "Goose" Goslin was batting close to .414 for Washington. Sharp-nosed, sharp-chinned, sharp-eyed, amiable, fast, lazy, and a tireless autographer of balls, fond of track athletics and very poor at them, Goslin has proved himself for a long time a fine batter. Last spring he bet "Memphis Bill" Terry, Giant first baseman, $5 he could beat him sprinting, lost his five. A little later, with no money up, he tried to throw the discus, strained his arm. Unable to win games without...
...contestants the excitements of the game are somewhat limited; like horse-racing, its primary purpose is to excite spectators who are interested 1) in observing the eccentricities with which the contestants pursue their objective, and 2) in seeing which contestant will win. Such eccentricities, augmented by the strain of long-continued competition, vary from temporary insanity to tango dancing...
...When. Long ago it became obvious that the Mayor of New York City, James John Walker, was one of the required ingredients of any Manhattan musical show. Usually, as impersonated by one of his many imitators, the Mayor would appear in the last act, a deus ex machina, to solve the transitory problems of the plot. When he attended the show there would be a bridling invitation from the management and the dignitary would clamber readily from his seat in the front row to be himself upon the stage. The producers of Say When had more ambitious plans...
Airplane manufacturers swelled with pride and anticipation, each confident his make would perform most dependably on the long flight to Texas, to California, Oregon and back through the Northwest. Manufacturer Edsel B. Ford, donor of the four-foot, silver and green marble trophy, acted as starter, watched his own new models take the air for the Texas Co. and the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. Manufacturer Eddie Stinson, not content to enter his Stinson-Detroiter with another pilot, took the controls himself, sought to repeat his 1927 victory. These counted: skill, reliability, speed, endurance, plane performance. This was the serious...