Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor of New York, alert at Albany, spent three successive evenings beside his radio. It was a long time to wait for one announcement but he bore up cheerfully. The long sittings made historic a small, thickly upholstered sofa and a ponderous, brindled Great Dane named Jefferson, whom the Governor addressed now and then to ease his mind. Mrs. Emily Smith Warner (eldest daughter) and her husband were there, too. Also Walter Smith (youngest son), Mrs. Belle Moskowitz (chief publicist) and her husband; also secretaries, friends, newsgatherers. The Governor chewed long cigars, drank water frequently. His face was redder than...
...from the Gore speech: "Four years ago the Republican Party went to New England to pick a candidate. This year they have to go to old England." "Republicans already have begun to sing 'My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean.'" "Mr. Hoover went too far and stayed too long." "Let us all make up, no matter whom we have to kiss. . . . We shall, as Democrats, have at least one advantage-we won't have to kiss in the dark. You see, we haven't revoked the segregation law." "There was one piece of sardonic humor...
Alma Ek, Guggenheim Copper Co. official, was a passenger on the motor ship Santa Maria. Short of name, Globetrotter Ek is nevertheless long of stature (6 feet, 3 inches...
...automobile rolled slowly by in the dark street, spitting a mechanical stream of fire and lead. "Big Tim" died where he stood. Accustomed to gangster funerals in Chicago, the United Press issued a laconic bulletin on the Murphy ceremony before it took place. "A cortege a mile long, with scores of automobiles bearing floral tributes . . . etc., etc." But the U. P. guessed poorly. Chicago is changing a little. The Chicago Crime Commission, under a small, fearless, 76-year-old lawyer, named Frank J.Loesch, has set out to clean up the crime capital of the U. S. beginning...
...passed, during the last two months, between the mighty Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and the puny Republic of Austria. The Prime Minister of Austria, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, is a conservative, and no fool. He knows that the Communists of Vienna unquestionably possess supplies of arms and that not long ago they staged murderous riots. All would not be well in Austria if Bela Kun, the most prominent agitator in the employ of the Moscow Third International, should come to harm...