Word: longish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entered Republican politics in the Territory, served four years in the Hawaiian Senate, was supervisor of the city and country of Honolulu. As Chairman of the Republican organization on the Islands, he was famed as one of the most liberal cigar-passers in Pacific politics. His face is longish and inclined to solemnity. Grave eyes look out from behind horn-rimmed glasses. A friendly man, he nevertheless practices a certain cautious reserve, a certain restraint of language. When informed of his appointment by President Hoover, he drew himself up seriously before his friends and announced: "I will endeavor to serve...
...amusing incidents to color the author's reminiscences. Although all the stories deal with the war, there is a wide variety of style and type. The collection is a good one and makes an excellent change in diet for the reader who has been confining his reading to longish novels...
...Bourget (Paris airport) hundreds of humans were squatting, dancing, shouting on a flat and barren plain in the dead of night. Revelers in. evening clothes uncorked champagne bottles for actresses who did not mind sitting on the grass. Peasants were satisfied with good red wine and longish sandwiches. Suddenly, at 3:15 a. m., the plainsfolk scampered toward other folk who cheered as a huge, ghostly bird emerged from a huger tent...
...distinguished immigrant-editor-publicist-pacifist has a fleshier face than President Wilsons ever was. His type is far less intellectual, broader, heavier in every way; strong?yes?but not so magnificently "horse-jawed . . . lean templed . . . highbrowed." You published an excellent but disrespectful description of Woodrow Wilson, all but the "longish ears," which you must have transplanted from a Bok photograph where they are indeed to be seen. President Wilson's ears were rounded and thin, often noticed them and was infuriated more than once by cartoons. . . . And one more point: you need not have been so sarcastic about Twice Thirty...
...Name two U. S. citizens who took pleasure in possessing similar jaws, brows, cheek grooves, hooded eyes, narrow crania, lean temples, longish ears...