Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wickham Steed, British editor, a White House caller of last fortnight, left with President Coolidge a world peace plan involving boycott by the U. S. of the aggressor nation in any war. After study, President Coolidge indicated that he viewed with alarm even passive U. S. participation in foreign wars...
...Hampshire was less badly off. Governor Huntley M. Spaulding made no call for help. Massachusetts, which had expected the worst as the flood crests approached last fortnight, escaped major damage. Connecticut, too, had time to prepare...
...Mexico City the emaciated corpse of General Arnulfo Gomez, executed last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 14), was laid, amid great weeping and hysteria, in its last resting place. At the same time what purported to be the true report of the manner of his capture and death was circulated. Surrounded by the troops of General Jose Gonzales Escobar, General Gomez, making a futile effort to draw his gun, fell on the slippery ground. Seeing that his game was up, he surrendered, and, fearing that he was about to be summarily shot, begged for his life, offering to take any punishment other...
...Story: In Belgium, Princess Astrid, consort of the Crown Prince, gave birth a fortnight ago to a 7-lb. daughter. Said despatches: "The cradle . . . had been optimistically oufitted in pink, the color for boys, that for a girl being blue."* Said many U. S. newspaper readers: "What! Pink for a BOY? Why, in our family, we have been using pink for GIRLS, blue for boys." A check of U. S. authorities (i. e., leading stores that sell baby equipment) showed: BOYS GIRLS...
Died. Alice Weed, widow of one Beverly Weed, whom erring news despatches a fortnight ago asserted had invented "Weed" tire chains; at Jackson, Mich. Lieutenant Colonel Harry D. Weed, who invented and patented the tire chain and organized the Weed Chain Tire Grip Co.† in 1904, lives at Bridgeport, Conn., with his family...