Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been introducing resolutions, backed by literal arguments, to bring the "war" question to a vote. Chairman Borah of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee threw his weight in with Administration Senators to keep the question in abeyance, at least until President Coolidge returned from the Pan-American Congress. Then, last fortnight, Senator Borah said he favored an Inquiry into the whole Nicaraguan affair and a complete reformulation of U, S. policy in Latin America. At this juncture, Democrats fell into dispute among themselves as to whether the U. S. Marines were fighting for Wall Street or Justice. Administration men seized...
Such was a headline with which, last fortnight, the Hearst press daringly scooped and anticipated Queen Marie of Jugoslavia. Her Majesty, unhurried, was not brought to bed until last week, then graciously gave birth to a man child, precisely ten days after the Hearst headline...
...each. If a client wants a really big question answered, he is sometimes instructed to press a $1 bill against the gypsy and blow on it, while the gypsy neatly picks his pocket. For such practices, the police arrested seven gypsy women in uptown Manhattan a fortnight ago, and examined dozens more last week. Be these as they may, palmistry is practiced seriously by many an honest girl...
...school for ladies in Los Angeles, Calif. They took their pupils to the peak of a neighboring mountain where the atmosphere was such that "heaven vibrations" and "love control" were easy, and fat reduction a frolic. The regular fee was $35, but several clients were moved to rounder numbers. Fortnight ago, the irate husband of one client whipped Swami Lal Ghosh...
...good family and good character with the proper eugenic background'' to be the father of her child. "There was nothing which approached promiscuity" in their relationship, she said. The young man, after performing his function as eugenic husband, quietly stepped out of her life. A fortnight ago at the Lying-in Hospital in Manhattan she gave birth to a daughter, whom she named Vera (truth). Last week an enterprising reporter of the New York World, unabashed by Mrs. Burnham's admonition ("This is not the sort of thing you would want to put in a newspaper"), gave...