Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...baptized Lyon Gardner Tyler, lived to be President-Emeritus of William and Mary college. Shortly after his 70th birthday Lyon Gardner took a second wife (Sue Ruffin, whose ancestor fired the first gun at Fort Sumter) and before he was 73 she bore him a son. Last fortnight 75-year-old Doctor Tyler became the father of another son. Thus were 139 years spanned and spent from the first presidency to the election of the 31st president, including an administration of their own by two generations of the potent Presidential Tylers of Virginia...
Quietly sank the Vestris, a fortnight ago, some 250 miles east of Hampton Roads, in water two miles deep, beyond hope of recovery. There was no collision, no explosion, no hurricane. She was scuttled, perhaps by negligence...
Since most Englishmen honestly believe that collectively they are the true font of Conscience and Righteousness, the words spoken by President Calvin Coolidge, last fortnight, stirred a deep tidal wave of English indignation, which was still rising last week. Seldom before have so many hundreds and then thousands of letters poured in upon the Times-famed Safety Valve of Empire Passions. Finally with the appearance of England's characteristic "weekly reviews," the weighty and considered indignation of British best minds was hurled against Calvin Coolidge...
Told discreetly at the Foreign Office, last week, was the tale of a jest cracked by Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, last fortnight, when he and Prime Minister Poincare were earnestly consulting how to reconstruct the fallen Government (i.e., Cabinet...
...just overthrown the corrupt, oligarchical gov ernment of onetime Prime Minister Vintila Bratiano (TIME, Nov. 12 et seq.). To the Dowager Queen and the Princess-Mother-of-a-King, Peasant Maniu revealed a truly staggering state of affairs. He declared that upon coming into power, last fortnight, he found in the Royal Treasury a cash balance of exactly three lei (one and four-fifths of a cent). He found a national deficit of nine billion lei ($54,000,000) ; and that advances already made to the State by the National Bank of Rumania greatly exceeded the legal limit. In short...