Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Administration declared itself wholeheartedly on the side of Hooverism, there would have been an end not only of Candidate Lowden but of his program. But the Administration, in the person of Secretary Mellon, declared itself last fortnight not so much in favor of Hooverism as receptive to it for want of anything more perfect. There seemed to remain a cranny of doubt about Candidate Hoover's ability to bring off a Republican victory. Into this cranny Candidate Lowden hastened to drive his wedge of Midwestern warning...
...place in U. S. public life so long occupied by Charles Evans Hughes. Regardless of such sneerers as the New York World, which reminded people that Mr. Mellon came to office during the Harding regime, no Republican had a better right than he to talk, as he did last fortnight, about "the standard that we have set for this high office." Perhaps a thought of this crossed Candidate Lowden's agitated mind when he retorted to the Administration, for Mr. Lowden is something of a patrician too, in a large, squire-like...
Only last fortnight U. S. Brigadier General Frank R. McCoy said, upon arriving at Washington from Nicaragua: "Sandino is just a little fellow prowling among the caverns of the mountains. ... If it weren't for the newspapers in the U. S. nobody much would know about Sandino. . . . People can't understand why 4,000 marines can't catch him quickly . . . but a fugitive might escape capture for a long time right in New York or Chicago...
...erroneously reported last fortnight that Lady Sophie Heath, 30, had arrived in London by train (TIME, May 21). Actually, she did not reach London until last week-and she came alone in her own airplane, completing her solo flight from Cape Town, South Africa, after she had been long delayed by British officials at Cairo, Egypt...
...Until 2:00 and 3:00 o'clock each morning, taxicabs with their doors held open like traps, line lower Broadway's sidewalk, to carry night workers away. Hornblower & Weeks, stock market brokers, at Easter gave their heavily worked clerks two weeks extra pay. A fortnight ago the company repeated the bonus. Luke, Banks & Weeks, another brokerage house, divided a day's brokerage commissions among their clerks. Other houses have dealt as handsomely...