Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...center of the theatrical world. It has, however, managed to remain respectable in the matter of dramatic entertainment and usually has afforded enough plays to satisfy any nicely adjusted histrionic digest on. Therefore the coming drought during which almost every legitimate theatre remains closed for a fortnight is not so much a Lenten penance as a sad testimonial to the decline of "the road...
...first time, Oilman Harry F. Sinclair appeared before a court fortnight ago to answer criminal charges arising from his leasing of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve. This was the result of U. S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision (TIME, Jan. 31) that witnesses who refused to answer proper and pertinent questions when summoned by Congress, may be punished for contempt. Mr. Sinclair had defied a Senate investigating committee in 1924. That was why he found himself in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. After a ten-day trial and acting under specific, simple instruction from Judge...
...snoozing legislators had doubtless been dreaming about what all the West and Southwest has eaten, drunk and slept the past fortnight-GOLD. The rush and scrabble for some of the $78,000 lode struck lately at Weepah, down near the slanting California lino (TIME, March 21), continued last week to swell and assume bright color. Blizzards and gales that swept Weepah tenters down the canon, did not cool the yellow metal fever. Nearby Tonopah, base camp for the skirmishers, buzzed with brokers, show girls, sour-doughs, eager tourists. Buying and selling of mine shares was fast and furious...
...judge the true value of art is to have a group of laymen vote on it, which is the system selected by E. W. Marland, President of the Marland Oil Co., in determining the best "Pioneer Woman in America," as conceived by twelve competing sculptors, exhibited for the past fortnight at the Reinhardt Galleries in Manhattan...
...situation would be discouraging in the extreme were it for the growing conviction among intelligent observers that disarmament can from now on be but a gesture under any circumstances. Within the last fortnight, Mr. Wells, of singular prophetic accuracy, has declared that no soldier is as obsolete today as the Greek phalanx. General Pershing said that the recognized armament of any nation in the next war will have nothing to do with its success or failure. And even Mr. Coolidge has been quoted to the effect that God and righteousness are the only true national weapons of defense...