Word: overlong
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty sat waiting. The delay lengthened, grew in a few seconds to seem interminable. . . . Black Rod. That which delayed George V in opening Parliament was the absence of the plebeian members of the House of Commons. In another part of the Palace of Westminster they were dallying overlong with a ceremony of quaint historic significance. They were rebuffing the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod. . . . Lieutenant General Sir William Pulteney, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., K.C.M. B., B.D.S.O., receives $1,000 per annum ($4,860) for acting as the Black Rod, and carrying it: a massive staff of ebony surmounted by a golden...
...well upon the foundations laid by Dr. Eliot. It is therefore obvious that it appreciates the worth of that foundation and intends fittingly to commemorate the maker at a service in which all Harvard can participate. The CRIMSON feels most strongly however, that such a service has been postponed overlong and that at least a statement of the plans of the administration should on issued to still rising apprehension that Harvard as a corporate body has failed in a primary qualification of the educated gentleman appreciation of true greatness where such appreciation is so obviously...
...flock of war birds. But Britain refused. She could not become implicated in a religious war. She had definite obligations to the rulers of Iraq and Kerak under man-dates given her by the League of Nations. Husein was independent-so independent in fact that he had hesitated overlong to sign a treaty with his ally, Britain. He must defend himself as best he could...