Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fortnight ago Roy Asa Haynes, double-chinned champion of the ultra-Drys, was appointed Acting Prohibition Commissioner (TIME, April 4) to the rousing cheers of the Anti-Saloon League. Last week the victory of the League, the Dry stand of President Coolidge, the humiliation of General Lincoln C. Andrews* turned out to be equivocal. Treasury orders were issued to the effect that Commissioner Haynes must have each order approved by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews before it is issued...
...CARROLL MUST SURRENDER" said a modest headline. Some vaguely remember that Earl Carroll, theatrical producer had been convicted of perjury months before; everyone knows he gave the party where Joyce Hawley splashed and wept in a bath-tub full of alleged champagne. A fortnight ago the U. S. Supreme Court turned down his appeal: Producer Carroll must go to Atlanta to spend a year and a day. Gossip said he would pay his own way to Atlanta to keep his appointment with the government on time; the U. S. Marshal's office, left without money to pay his fare...
With the mailing of the CRIMSON'S Concentration Pamphlet and with President Lowell's impending talk on the very important subject of choosing a field, the members of the Freshman class prepare for a decision on which rests the remainder of their college work. For the past fortnight the CRIMSON has published articles written in an advisory and intimate manner by the heads of the various departments wherein the high lights and pitfalls of different specialties have been discussed. The, collection of these pieces into a unit in which the general system of concentration and its several divisions are considered...
Fear hag-rode the U. S. Army Transport Chateau Thierry into San Francisco last week. Mumps, influenza and Death were aboard, and at San Francisco were hospitals. The boat had left Brooklyn a fortnight before. On it were 125 first-class passengers, including 13 members of the U. S. House of Representatives. There were also 950 enlisted men under command of Brigadier General Henry G. Learnard who was to transship some of his detachment at Honolulu for service in China. The ship's crew numbered 147. Altogether there were some 1,200 people on board, and three Army doctors...
...DARK GENTLEMAN-G. B. Stern-Knopf ($2.50). Setting her eye about at the level of the kennel doors at the Casa Lucceola, which is near San Remo on the Riviera, Author Stern relates with considerable finesse certain events that took place there in March, a fortnight or so before the feast of St. Sirius, the Dogstar. . . -. Pekoe and Baloo, the haughty chows from down the hill, were oddly enough the first to wind anything. They told Golden Toes that his mother, Rennie, was looking beautiful and young Toes, sociable no end, repeated the remark at home. Kim, the lean Irish...