Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francis M. Schirp, President of the New York Federation of German Catholic Societies, and President L. A. Ewald of the United Bavarian Societies of New York. They and others disputed the significance of the Endorsement of Nominee Smith, last fortnight, by the executive committee of the nationwide Steuben Society...
...distance walker, now witless ; Gen. Valeriano Weyler, Spanish commander in Cuba in war of 1898; David A. Boody, onetime Mayor of Brooklyn, financier; Dr. Alpheus Baker Hervey, onetime (1888-94) president of St. Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y., whom Owen D. Young and other reverent business men honored a fortnight ago with a celebration...
...last fortnight, was vexed. Said he: "Mr. Borglum's head of General Lee everyone recognized. Mr. Lukeman's head of General Lee few people recognize. The nose is crooked, the left arm looks withered and paralyzed, the hilt of the sword is gone and the stirrup of his saddle is broken off. The money is all gone, and the Lukeman carving of General Lee is a mutilated imperfection that cannot be rectified...
...General Lee was still in rough outline. Replying to Mr. Venable's threatening assertion that he had turned the rights over to the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Sculptor Lukeman continued: " The Daughters ... are now shoulder to shoulder with us. ... The Association will resume work within the next fortnight...
...Sculptor Borglum referred, last fortnight, to Sculptor Lukeman's work as "the hole blown in the mountain since my absence...