Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator George William Norris, grey and cadaverous, was on his feet at his Senate desk. The chamber, emptied by an hour-long tariff speech by Senator Broussard of Louisiana, began filling up. In his rear-row seat Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut kept shifting his long legs nervously. His well-cut white head was bent forward; his eyes strayed toward Senator Norris, dropped, scanned the chamber. Senator Jones of Washington glanced up from the workaday stack of books and papers on his desk. Senator Johnson of California in the front row swung his red chair halfway round to watch...
Fussbudgety Senator Fess of Ohio was on his feet. Senator Bingham's eyes traveled trustingly to him. Said Senator Fess: "Mr, President, I ask the Senator [Norris] if he will not allow the resolution to go over." Senator Norris moved his head in the perfunctory assent of one long used to the Senate's delays. Senator Fess sat down. Senator Bingham looked at the back of Senator Norris' head...
Cried Democratic Gunner Harrison of Mississippi: "I come from a part of the country where people don't believe much in working Saturday afternoon. I share that view. We have had long hours here. Let's see some football, take an auto ride, play golf. We need recreation...
...National Guardsmen throughout the land last week when a six-foot Baptist clergyman eased his big frame down to the desk of Chief of the Militia Bureau in the War Department at Washington. Well did militiamen know that this new Federal director of their organizations in 48 states has long been leading a double life: that he is as much a soldier, seasoned in hard service, as he is a preacher potent in the pulpit...
Quickly followed the identification of Cassidy as the "Man in the Green Hat"? 'legger who long has specialized in trade around the Capitol. Three years ago he was going his rounds in the House Office Building when his liquor-laden brief case fell to the stone floor. Amid fumes of alcohol, he fled to the street. His only identification then was his bright green hat. When arrested last week he wore a hat of sober grey...