Word: forte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When another, Dr. J. Frank Norris of Fort Worth, Texas, a stanch American, cried, "we want Rockefeller to keep his bloody money," the Bible Unionists applauded. Yet in the larger convention the vote was cast and for the next twelvemonth Mr. Rockefeller and the other modernists may pass their way before the contemning eyes of the fundamentalists...
...many myriads have seen and heard and known George Wilham Mundelein. They have seen him as a Manhattan?? boy undecided whether to enter the army (his grandfather was the first Union soldier killed at Fort Sumter in the prelude to the Civil War) or to join the Catholic priesthood. They have known him at work in the Diocese of Brooklyn and in Chicago. They have heard his eloquence (he speaks several languages). They know ms gestures, his habit of forgetting names...
Stopping on the way down at Moline, Ill., St. Joseph, Mo., Kansas City, Wichita, Oklahoma City and Fort Worth, the first southbound plane reached Dallas short of twelve hours after its start at dawn-despite inaugural ceremonies at the stops. The first northbound plane bucked headwinds from Dallas up, but made connections with the air mail going east that night from Chicago...
Last week, in Fort Worth, Tex., the ponderous right hand of World's Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey described a motion that sportsmen had begun to believe it might never describe again. After hours spent thrashing the harvest in advance, Champion Dempsey reached for a pen and signed an agreement to fight another fight. A second dotted line was signed by Promoter Tex Rickard of Manhattan. No place, no opponent was named, but Dempsey committed himself to encounter either of the two logical challengers-Gene Tunney or Harry Wills-and Rickard indicated that either his New Madison Square Garden...
...notices again that the volume for 1926 is well under way and will not be closed until the first of June. It is open to sermons of all kinds by men of all communions - Jew, Gentile, Catholic and Protestant. Only exclusiveness is excluded. Wishing TIME every blessing, JOSEPH FORT NEWTON...