Word: lengthiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...readers got the first volume of Maxim Gorki's lengthiest book. The story of Russian pre-Revolutionary intellectual life, it was called Bystander, revolved around an apathetic, intelligent provincial lawyer, Clim Samghim, who flirted all his life with the revolutionary movement, drifted with the winds of doctrine without ever finding harbor in a cause, a code of belief, a philosophy. Samghim's story was carried on-in so far as it moved at all-in The Magnet and Other Fires. Last week the fourth and last volume, left unfinished by Gorki at his death in 1936. was published...
...Lengthiest and most vindictive telegram was to Governor Woodring. In several thousand bitter words eloquent Mr. Doherty explained that he had liked the Governor at first, but suspects him of being "under the evil influence of the men who control the Kansas City Star." He went on to say that when his company first went to Kansas 15 years ago many of the local gas companies had been bankrupted by the Star's crusading, that he had brought heat and light to suffering communities. The consumers, he said, had not been consulted in the present fight, nor had the facts...