Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over there in those trees and don't move until I tell you." Tunisia was far from wooded Georgia and bloody Chickamauga, far from the tableland beside the Tennessee where Grant won the battle of Shiloh in spite of himself, far even from the foreign forest of Belleau where the living Marines grew so tired they lay down beside their dead friends and slept under shell fire. Tunisia seemed another world, another time almost-it was the place where the Battle of Zama was fought and the arrogant Hannibal was beaten...
...route to Fort Pitt, Salathiel met a white girl and, after passing the day alone with her in the forest, was hastily mar ried to her by a friendly preacher. Almost immediately they were separated, for en try into bristling Fort Pitt was not for everyone. Inside the fort, Salathiel met the commandant Captain Ecuyer, became his valet and bodyguard. From the Cap tain he learned discipline, borrowed such books as Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Richard son's Clarissa Harlowe...
...hate all redskins. His country, the new America, he found to be a land that began west of the Alleghenies, "the seeds of it . . . scattered in lonely cabins," where liberty was not a dream but "a state of nature to be successfully lived in." Slowly, surely, the forest was giving way to the fort...
With Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in the leading roles, and others like Perey Kilbridge, the witty Yankee taxi driver, Frank Craven and Richard Whorf supporting them, the entire cast turns in a collectively good job of acting. The picture starts with the death of Robert Forest, a prominent and well loved politician, soldier, and public benefactor who turns out to be an enemy agent. Tracy, an admiring newspaper man back from the world battlefronts, dedicates himself to writing the story of Forest's life. He encounters Katharine Hephurn, Forest's wife, and in the process of investigation discovers that...
Further probing brings Forest's true character to light and the fact the his wife is shielding his guilt only to spare the public the disillusionment of knowing that the man in whom they had placed their trust had betrayed them...