Word: fortnightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrat for Governor. The Democrat was Prof. William Moseley Brown of Washington and Lee University, already nominated by the anti-Smith-Raskob wing of his own party (TIME, July, 1). Regular Republicans and the Democrats who had followed Bishop James Cannon Jr. out of their party at Roanoke last fortnight thus coalesced against the regular Democratic state organization. The band played "Dixie." A platform was adopted without the bother of reading it. Mr. Slemp, exalted, cried: "I am in the presence of the dominant party of Virginia. Nationally there is no Democratic party. . . . They won't even sit down...
Bomboola. Out of the inexhaustible deeps of Harlem came this musical comedy, less percussive than last fortnight's amazing Hot Chocolates, tending more toward Negro moods of grace and .pathos. High spot: a party scene in which the dancing couples move their feet least of all and become revivalists at the entrance of the police...
...Japanese War Office solemnly declared last fortnight that a "state of war" existed in the empire. A general, instant mobilization of war industries was ordered. General staffs assembled, industrial leaders sat alert at their desks, all factories were ordered to produce "war materials." Martial as the mobilization sounded, it was in reality no more than what occurs annually on Defense Day in the U. S., when for a few minutes railway presidents and corporation heads exchange potent telegrams with the War Department at Washington. But Japan's Defense Day served to remind U. S. citizens in Hawaii, last week...
...Constitution, a two-thirds majority is always necessary to renew it. Bickering between Communists and Nationalists last week brought a final vote of 268 in favor of the law to 166 against, enought to defeat it. The Reichstag is almost sure to pass the law when it reassembles a fortnight hence. At Doorn a gentleman characterized by U. S. correspondents as "the ex-Kaiser's court marshal" said that there was no likelihood that Wilhelm would take advantage of his temporary freedom...
...Last fortnight Vienna beheld a street parade of floats representing all manner of trades and industries. Around and among the slow-moving floats pranced and danced umbrella makers, luggage manufacturers, butchers, bakers, florists, plumbers, executing dance figures appropriate to their trades. Specially composed music, tunes of historical significance, were recorded on phonograph discs, broadcast from a central station, picked up and amplified on the floats. Author of the spectacle was Rudolf von Laban, Austrian painter, philosopher, choreographer. He was demonstrating his point that dancing lends itself as well as any of the arts to the purposes of commerce...