Word: forte
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...flood had seeped up through the bulkhead and cellar windows, and Mount Auburn Street was snowy with the stuff. For days afterward the sewers were clogged, but this quality of the printed matter had its good side as well. The city officials said that none of the dirt from Fort Hill had packed so solidly and heavily as each successive load of Lampoon...
Subiaco is one of the 18 Benedictine abbeys in the U. S. Father Wolfgang Schlumph founded it in 1878. Arkansas at that time was a wild district of Indians and white outlaws. The Army garrison at Fort Smith was a necessity. But Father Schlumph with his blackrobed Benedictines feared no one. His troupe worked their way through the Ozarks and at a mountain spot 50 miles from Fort Smith they made a clearing, sawed and chopped blocks of limestone from the mountain walls and built themselves a home. They called the place Subiaco, after Subiaco in Italy where St. Benedict...
...monastery. The monks hastily pulled on their squared-toed shoes, their black gowns; they ran to the student dormitories and herded the sleepy boys to safety. They knew that they had neither chance nor means to extinguish the blaze. Water was too scant in the mountains. They telephoned Fort Smith. The night telephone operator there saw their signal flashing redly from her switchboard; asked, respectfully, what they wished; put them in instant connection with the Fort Smith fire department...
...useless to attempt to drive the fire trucks from Fort Smith to Subiaco. The distance is 50 miles and the roads bad. A five-mile stretch ust west of Paris was impossible. So the firemen loaded their trucks on railroad cars and shipped them by rail to Subiaco. They wasted no time. But when they arrived at the monastery they found little to do other than to look at the bleak walls, the shivering students and monks...
...last week's pandemonium boomed a happy note from Fort Madison, Iowa, headquarters of the W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co. Walter A. Sheaffer, now 61 years old, had been a prosperous jeweler there 15 years ago. In all merchants prosperity and alertness are not concomitants. In Mr. Sheaffer they were. He organized his fountain pen company; hired skilled salesmen, skilled advertisement writers. They wrought as he expected. Last spring the 9,734 shares in the company were each worth $100. Last week a buyer was obliged to pay $852 for a share, and Mr. Sheaffer sent word to stockholders that...