Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Correspondents traced the new ruling to last fortnight's flurry over the President's rumored signing, in 1912, of an anti-third term petition directed against Theodore Roosevelt (TIME, May 23). In view of President Coolidge's possible 1928 presidential candidacy, his signing of a No-Third-Term petition (if he did sign one) would indeed have been a "bloody invention" returned to plague the inventor. Seeking official confirmation or denial, most of the Washington correspondents referred to the rumor in their conference questions. When the petition subject was wholly ignored, newspapers reported that the White House...
...Sections. Meanwhile the flood remained split into two sections. West of the Atchafalaya River the flood waters which last fortnight crumbled the Bayou de Glaize levees moved south, poured into the Atchafalaya River far more water than its banks could hold. This was the western half of the flood. The eastern half was the main stream of the Mississippi...
...which the Harvard twirler to face the invading batters will be chosen. Cutts work in the box this spring has been erratic, although his side arm delivery has generally proved baffling to opposing batsmen. Howard was recently converted into a pitcher and in his lone performance against Williams a fortnight ago, he allowed only a brace of hits...
Composer Handel, martial, romantic, won fame for impressive oratorios, the best known among them being The Messiah, Samson, Judas Maccabaeus. Lately, led by the University of Gottingen, Germans have resurrected some of the operas their countryman used to compose, sometimes in a fortnight's time, for production at the Haymarket Theatre, in the London of Addison and Steele, Alexander Pope and George I, the music-loving Hanoverian...
Distinguished ladies and gentlemen met in a Manhattan theatre last fortnight to pay a U. S. poet the almost archaic compliment of hearing his newest work and appraising it. They were Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, Kermit Roosevelt, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Lament, Dr. & Mrs. William Lyon Phelps, Dr. & Mrs. Henry Seidel Canby and many another including Critic Carl Van Doren whose position with the Literary Guild of America made him a sort of esthetic promoter of the evening, and Mrs. August Belmont (stage name: Eleanor Robson), who read aloud for all. The poet was Edwin Arlington Robinson...