Word: fortnightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Millions of U. S. cinemagoers looked and listened last fortnight as a grey-haired woman pleaded piteously on the screen for her family's good name. No movie mother whose son had gone wrong was she, but Mrs. Albert Bacon Fall, wife of the man whom a Washington jury convicted last month of committing the first felony ever proved on a member of a U. S. President's Cabinet. Shortly after Mr. Fall was sentenced to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine-the amount of the bribe he took from Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny...
Great was the friendship between the late great Theodore Roosevelt and Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, onetime (1912-18) British Ambassador to the U. S. Last fortnight were published letters to and from Sir Cecil, among them, illuminating dark spots in history, some 25,000 new words of Rooseveltiana.† Wrote President Roosevelt...
Father Power died at 25, of phthisis, some 60 years ago. About 30 years later rumor crept about that his grave held miraculous powers of healing. Fortnight ago the rumors grew and flew. From Boston, from all New.England, from the outer-States and Canada came the sick, the halt, the blind, the faithful, the curious; also quick-lunch vendors, souvenir postcard hawkers, trinket peddlers, troublemakers. From dawn to dusk, day after day, the slow-shuffling queue wound through the cemetery to the silent grave, heaped with flowers, surrounded with guttering vigil lights. Boston's Irish Catholic Mayor-elect James Michael...
Expelled from Germany last year as an "undesirable," sued for divorce last fortnight by Princess Victoria, whose attorneys named a barmaid, Subkoff was arrested last week and jailed as he slipped into Germany, ostensibly to attend the funeral at the Friedrichshof, near Cronberg, seat of the Landgrave of Hesse. There, in the Taunus Mountains, amid rustling, pungent pines, Victoria of Hohenzollern was buried in the presence of her weeping sister Margaret and their Royal Highnesses the abdicated Grand Duke of Hesse and Duke of Brunswick...
...unknown frugal Yorkshireman remembered Poet Philips' splendid shilling fortnight ago, and the Miltonic disasters that, according to ensuing stanzas, the lack of it entailed. Further he remembered that tousle-headed eight-year-old King Mihai of Rumania had just been given his first pair of long trousers (TIME, Oct. 28). To a Birmingham newspaper he sent a shiny new shilling piece and a note, addressed to the King of Rumania...