Word: forte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Again Evangelist J. Frank Norris of Fort Worth, Tex., has been found not guilty of a criminal charge. Fourteen years ago he overcame prosecution for arson and then for perjury, after his Fort Worth Baptist church and parsonage had been burned. This time the charge was murder...
...worn-out plumbing systems and putter around creaking stables. Many an officer, living with his family at such a camp, has had to spend his own money to make his house livable. Having no Garden of Eden, the U. S. defenders take their fun where they find it. At Fort Douglas, they have invented the game of mule polo, whose chief difference from the authentic game is found in the temperamental habits of the mule...
Miss Anne Nichols is always in the news. If nowhere else, her name is on the theatre page where a brief notice states that her play, Abie's Irish Rose, is to be seen on Broadway. It is also to be seen in Philadelphia, in Chicago, in Fort Smith, Ark., in Pueblo, Col., in Augusta, Me., and in Sydney, Australia. Next April an eighth company opens in London. Last week the Manhattan company, with its 2,000th performance, equaled the world's record for consecutive performances.* Abie's Irish Rose has run for four years and eight...
Excitedly the figure in the rawhide boots advanced: "You mean Black Jack* Pershing. Well, shake hands with your old private that used to peel potatoes for you. Yes, Sir, General-in the Sioux Indian campaign, buck private in Seventh Cavalry at Fort Niobrara. Black Jack himself! Yes, sir, all the ducks you want. I'll be danged...
...northeastern Colorado, men armed themselves with clubs, flocked to Fort Morgan, ranged in a wide-flung line over the prairie, herded 2,000 wild rabbits-pestilential to crops-into a wire enclosure, waded among them, slew all, eagerly looked forward to another field day the "mammoth bunny slaughter of the Denver Post Brush Civic Club, occasion for an annual holiday in northeastern Colorado...