Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people of Hot Springs, Ark., were stirred one evening last fortnight as they had not been stirred since April 6, 1917. A pack of newsboys, coursing through the crowded streets at cinema time, were baying like gutter beagles, "UX-try, UX-tree-e! 'Clare War on Chine! M'rines goin' tuh Chine! UX-try! UX-tree! War wit' Chine...
...until last fortnight did Editor & Publisher (journalistic trade weekly) publish an interview telling how the daughter of a press potentate enjoys and conducts herself as a member of her father's staff. Then it became apparent that assembling tabloid news is as much fun for the daughter as furnishing it to the masses is for the parent. Miss Patterson said: ". . . the most fun in the world. Far better than going to school, and you learn so much more...
Meanwhile, not all U. S. hearts still throbbed as one in affection for Colonel Lindbergh. At Dayton, Ohio, rancor still dwelt among the populace whom the flyer last fortnight "affronted" by driving through Dayton's back streets to visit Orville Wright, ancestor of aviation. Though Colonel Lindbergh had repeatedly explained his visit was wholly "unofficial" and had begged that there be no Dayton speeches or parade, eminent Daytonians were chagrined beyond gracefulness. Last week they were still bitterly quoting their police chief's description of the Lindbergh tactics: "a dirty, back-alley trick." Mayor Allen C. McDonald...
During Charles Evans Hughes' term as Secretary of State there was a movement to take the Islands out of War Department jurisdiction and turn them over to the State Department. Secretary Hughes expressed no eagerness for the additional responsibility, and the idea was finally dropped. Last fortnight when General Wood called on the President at Custer Park (TIME, July 4) the transfer scheme was presumably revived, and shortly following the conference the President made his transfer suggestion...
...Church and his son Warren Badenock Straton, 19, into the lake of metropolitan publicity last week. Their excuse for the "hazing" was Son Warren Badenock's recent epileptiform "baptism by fire of the Holy Spirit" and Father John Roach's quarrel with five of his deacons a fortnight ago (TIME, July 4). The newspapers were "following up" these "stories." It was incumbent upon the Stratons to swim or sink...