Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Speaking in Philadelphia last fortnight, Sir Charles Higham, British tea man, told the Poor Richard Club that President Coolidge is the best dressed man in the U. S., one of the few U. S. men who have their shoes shined. Later, Robert Barry, New York World correspondent, unearthed the following details concerning the President's attire...
Should President Calvin Coolidge spend a fortnight as the guest of Premier Benito Mussolini and then return to advocate a Fascist government for the U. S., editors would cry "Hot news...
...received as salary. Thus Governor Fuller. Why, however, has his action regarding the Sacco-Vanzetti case become a matter of national, of international concern? Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti are awaiting execution for a payroll robbery, accompanied by murder, occurring in South Braintree, Mass., on April 15, 1920. A fortnight ago Judge Webster Thayer, trial judge at the time of the conviction, sentenced the two Italians to be executed sometime during the week of July 10, 1927 (TIME, April...
Consonant with this last week's luncheon-time report was the detailed chronicle of His Holiness's daily occupations, which the Vatican reported to the North American Newspaper Alliance a fortnight...
...Fulton, Mo., last fortnight, a newsgatherer gazed upon a board containing 100 circlets of human hair in every conceivable color. The circlets were tied with ribbons. Under each was a woman's name, an address. Five insets adorned the board, four containing tin-types of handsome human females coifed and prinked as was the fashion 35 years ago. The fifth inset, placed in the midst of the collection, showed a young man of Apollonian mien?crisp, curly hair, square forehead, forceful jaw, roguish eye. That was the way one J. Roy Tucker, now a slightly bald, portly...