Word: fortnights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lone pilot in a grey bird (plane) over the yawning Atlantic caused many people to develop poetic ecstasy. The fruits of more than 200 inspirations reached the New York Times; the New York World reported 2% bushels of verse. But at Le Bourget, shortly after Captain Lindbergh landed a fortnight ago, there was a poet who squatted on the flying field to gain first-hand inspiration-like Francis Scott Key writing the Star Spangled Banner. The squatter was sleek Maurice Rostand, son of the late Edmond Rostand.* The results were disappointing, particularly when translated into English. An excerpt...
...Greatest Catastrophe." Few U. S. citizens appeared to realize the extent of the flood disaster. During the last fortnight, indeed, the flood did not enjoy a "good press." The Snyder-Gray trial and the Lindbergh transatlantic flight elbowed it onto the inside pages of many a newspaper. Nevertheless, observers united in terming it the greatest of peacetime national catastrophes of all time...
Florence Walton, famed onetime wife of the late Maurice Mouvet, now dancing in a Paris revue with Georges Carpentier, was photographed with him a fortnight ago as they appeared at an Egyptian ball. M. Carpentier, painted powdered and jeweled, was dressed in satin like an Egyptian queen...
...however, marched with the "brolly" brigade, carrying her shelter in her left hand. Down from the Irish skies shot a bolt of Irish lightning, ran down the spines of Miss Leitch's umbrella, knocked her flat on the grass, put her arm out of golfing commission for a fortnight...
...Anglo-American scholarship fund of ?250,000 ($1,215,000) was established by the will of Lady Henry, formerly Miss Julia Lewisohn of Manhattan, who died a fortnight ago following an operation for cancer. The bequest provides scholarships at Oxford and Cambridge for U. S. students of either sex; scholarships at Harvard and Yale for British students of either...