Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...company also said: "No porter works 400 hours per month. Some work only 100 hours and the average is less than 300 hours. Porters have sleep periods while on long runs and long rest periods at the end of runs. For instance: three-day run to Pacific Coast (nightly sleep en route), then 24 or 28 hours off on the Coast. Three days back to Chicago and then a rest period of five and six days, with...
Stocky, stiff-pompadoured Prime Minister Augustine Valdemaras of Lithuania, who has so long obstructed any settlement not in accordance with his views, was sternly warned, last week, by British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. "Sympathy is naturally accorded to small nations," rapped Sir Austen, "but if a weaker nation [Lithuania] goes out of its way to irritate and provoke a more powerful one [Poland] or shows itself unreasonable, it will deprive itself of the sympathy of its neighbors. . . . Ah, M. Valdemaras, do not cast that sympathy away...
...League are still at their disposal, it is the opinion of the Council, after five years of investigation, that the matter should now be settled by direct negotiations between Rumania and Hungary. When informed of this decision by telephone, Prime Minister Count Bethlen of Hungary barked back over the long distance wire, "The League once more has proved its utter impotency...
With dubious incredulity and then with exhilaration Germans learned, last week, that in Paris students of the Latin Quarter were rushing up and down the Grands Boulevards shouting and successfully inciting passersby to shout, "Vive L'Alle-magne!" (Long Live Germany...
...took the affair to heart. Cabby Hartmann was royally banqueted at the German Embassy in Paris. In Berlin the Tagliche-Rundschau, organ of the Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dr. Gustav Streseman, famed German Foreign Minister, declared: "The common people of France no longer feel that animosity toward Germans so long and artificially promoted by [French] politicians and the press." Observers who know the tenacious French mentality in regions which have been devastated by tramping Teutons were unimpressed. But enough postcards have been sold (50,000) and enough more will be sold to enable Cabby Hartmann to retire in comfort after...