Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glances into the pages of history were first made in Washington, D. C., where she grew up and went to public school. Her father was killed in an accident four months before she was born. Although her present familiarity with the great figures of the past suggests, perhaps correctly, long silent hours devoted to scholarship, friends recall that her penchant for playing hooky worried her mother a lot until Ina convinced her that, as she had already determined to become an actress, she did not need an education. What she needed, she insisted, was emotion. She made what...
Soon Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe came to stand for long minutes looking down at the man he had often called his most valuable assistant. M. le Prefect is a Corsican, slick and hard, but his voice broke as he turned to M. Benoit, grimvisaged Chief of the Surete General (Secret Service). "You tell his wife, Benoit," said Corsican Chiappe, "I can-not-the five poor little ones...
...some parts of the Great Kizil Kum Desert, cotton was cultivated 10,000 years before Christ, but these plantations have long since been obliterated by the shifting sands. With expert American help the Soviet government intends to make the rivers in Turkestan do for this enormous barren area what the rivers of California and other States have done for American waste land...
...railway as a political instrument to China's detriment, and that Soviet officials of the railway were utilizing their offices as headquarters for Communist propaganda tending to undermine the authority of the Nationalist government. Documentary evidence exists to prove this. And it has not been so very long since the United States, on less provocation, engaged in a nationwide round-up of Reds, real or alleged, and deported those they did not put in jail...
Newsgatherers were soon asking Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island what he would do about Mr. Blackshear. Bishop Stires was pained, but he explained that the Episcopal Church leaves the individual parish practically autonomous. He declined to express any opinion except this: "Personally I have the greatest affection and a warm paternal feeling for our colored brethren...