Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...money of his rich new Greek wife. And then, came sudden reaction. The Great Man retired to Crete, the island of his birth. He would, he said, translate and edit the works of Historian Thucydides (died circa 400 B. C.). He would be deeply, profoundly absorbed for a long time, perhaps until Death came. . . . Promptly suspicious Greeks reasoned that so successful a maker of history as Eleutherios Venizelos might soon itch to do more than edit. They remembered that he brought Greece into the War on the side of the Allies, although Greek King Constantine was brother...
Died. George A. Newett, 72, publisher of Iron Ore; at Ishpeming, Mich., after a long illness. In 1913 the late President Theodore Roosevelt sued him for libel, for having described the Roosevelt julep bed, and accused him of intemperance. Editor Newett lost the $10,000 suit, was fined...
...Kansas City, Mo., Methodists in convention (see p. 26) silently prayed during a long minute that the pilgrims reach safety...
...with such sure tactics that Miss Spence made her school the Manhattan model for discipline and scholarship as well as for what was then referred to as gentility. Her gayety, her wisdom, and her lofty character came to be reflected in the school she ran so long. When she died in 1923, Miss Charlotte S. Baker became the principal, aided by two assistants, Miss Helen Clarkson Miller and Miss Grace A. McElroy. Miss Miller made an announcement last week which surprised Spence girls more than any Spence girls have ever been surprised since the night of that banquet, long...
...Arbor is a relatively unimportant road, 300 miles long, and membership on its directorate is not very significant, although William Henry Williams is its chairman, as he is chairman of the Wabash...