Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true that President Coolidge made public a letter vigorously indorsing Senator William M. Butler of Massachusetts a fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 1), but every one knew already that the two were old friends...
Chief Justice Taft's Opinion. The Chief Justice in his decision, a fortnight ago, wrote a 24,000-word history of this ground. There is a scholarly solemnity in his 'document, which was a year and a half in preparation. An extract...
Within the fortnight, the Supreme Court handed down a cluster of minor decisions along with its opinion on the President's appointive power. Among them these seemed of general interest...
...command to tickle the palate of a Salzburg burgomaster. Schumann was next with his Concerto in A Minor, with Pianist Alfred Cortot to spin the important thread cunningly. Then came a stranger, Jacques Ibert, with three pieces from his ballet suite, Les Rencontres, given its U. S. premiere a fortnight ago by the Boston Symphony. In conflicting keys, restless violins traced his vagaries of flower girls and Creoles in the Debussy manner, gossiping women, fishwives taken rag and bone from Stravinsky. Critics damned it, called it dull, found the Mozart and the Schumann a little tiresome too. They blamed...
When Manhattan concertgoers departed from performances by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall last fortnight, most of their talk ran on the "spectacle" Conductor Leopold Stokpwski had provided. Hoping, he said, to enhance the beauty of his music, and free the ear from distraction by the eye, he had hidden his orchestra in gloom (TIME, Oct. 18). But he had placed himself under a refulgent yellow spotlight. The latter, he explained, was a necessary evil. A conductor must be seen by his men. Unkind critics said that Dr. Stokowski had been bitten by the David Belasco show...