Word: forte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case there is not enough atmosphere in the picture itself, "Beau Geste" presents itself at the University Theatre this week for the approbation of the local moviegoers. As far as we personally are concerned there is atmosphere aplenty in the opus itself. After one has approached the deserted fort across a distinctly realistic movie desert, one is supplied with plenty of local color, French Foreign Legion social ethics, North Beery brutality and much besides which deflea enumeration...
...freckles getting lost in dimples, the Governors had jocularly pushed and pulled each other across the interstate line. Last week's ceremony on the S. S. De Witt Clinton, anchored at midstream, was to signalize the breaking of ground for the world's longest suspension bridge* -between Fort Washington Park, N. Y., and Fort Lee, N. J. There was no jocular pushing, no pulling; but Democratic Governor Smith pertly warned Republican Senator Walter Evans Edge of Governor Moore's party to take care lest the new bridge make way for a Democratic invasion of New Jersey...
Twelve other important cities with managers: Grand Rapids, Cincinnati, Dayton (Ohio), Kansas City (Kan.), Sacramento, Fort Worth, Miami, Austin, New London (Conn.), Portland (Me.), Rapid City, Tampa...
...larger cities on the itinerary: Detroit, Milwaukee, Montreal, Toronto, Buffalo, Rochester, Philadelphia, Syracuse, Toledo, Youngstown, Columbus, Minneapolis, Denver, Des Moines, St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo., Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, Houston, New Orleans, Birmingham, Macon, Atlanta, Savannah, Chattanooga...
...Roosevelt, on behalf of hiss fellow trustees on this Foundation (George Foster Peabody of Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; Henry Pope of Chicago; James T. Whitehead of Detroit; Herbert N. Straus of Manhattan) invited Public Health Director Martin to take ten of the Fort Worth patients to Warm Springs for free treatment until each patient should be improved, "even if it takes three or four years...