Word: fortnightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sting-minded as any hornet last week was Edouard Daladier, stocky, pugnacious president of the Radical Socialist party, who almost managed to form a cabinet fortnight ago (TIME...
...country's prosperity is almost entirely dependent on coffee. Mountains of brown beans in Brazilian coffee warehouses, the certainty that the monopolistically raised price of coffee could not long withstand overproduction, caused the coffee market to crack fortnight ago (TIME...
...Last fortnight one of the innumerable roads to Rome (this one was the Saturnia of the Cosulich Line) took His Eminence Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, third-ranking U. S. Cardinal, Archbishop of New York to His Holiness Pius XI. Ghostly was His Eminence's business. As Archbishop of Rome's largest diocese (1,273,291) he had some to report on its spiritual condition...
Sued for Divorce. Alexander Suhkov, Russian émigré, by Princess Victoria of Schaumburg-Lippe; at Cologne, Germany. Grounds: nonsupport. Fortnight ago she sold all her private property for about $180,000, moved to a cheap boarding house near Bonn. She offered to pay Suhkov 10,000 marks ($2,400) for the return of her letters, he having already embarrassed her by writing his amorous memoirs and dedicating them with a sly flourish to her brother, onetime Kaiser Wilhelm...
...Fortnight ago, ushers at the Harvard-Dartmouth football game impounded a dozen gate-crashing moppets in a wire cage beneath the Soldiers Field stadium. Tiresome children! Lock them...