Word: forte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MAJOR W. B. LOUGHBOROUGH Fort Sam Houston...
...evacuation of Manhattan, General Knox ordered a brigade into a little fort which was rapidly being surrounded. Major Burr rode up and argued with Knox. Knox was obstinate. So Burr addressed the men and led them out of the closing trap. At 21, Burr was made Lieutenant Colonel and protested to Washington that others were placed over him. He gained a reputation as a disciplinarian and a leader. He was several times given command of troublesome troops. He established the first organized military intelligence for the Continental army...
...Coolidge, Secretary of War Davis, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, Major General Fox Conner, Acting Chief of Staff of the Army, and Admiral Edward W. Eberle, Chief of Naval Operations. Suddenly the morning sky was riven by the 21-gun presidential salute from an artillery battery at Fort Myer. Just before 11 a.m. the party entered the gates of Arlington Cemetery and proceeded on foot to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A band played "The Star Spangled Banner." The President advanced flanked by the Secretaries of War and the Navy. He deposited a large wreath of white Chrysanthemums upon...
...days when the late Reginald Vanderbilt, as a rakish Yale student, entertained the citizens of New Haven with nocturnal thunderings from his red racing car, his classmates remembered with respect a Harvard athlete who, a few years before, had stormed their fort with every crimson team-one Wrenn, Robert. He had played on the baseball nine; he had been a crack hockey forward; a resolute and heady quarterback-beyond question as good an all-around athlete as had attended any eastern college for perhaps a generation. His friends lost money to him at golf. Before Reginald Vanderbilt had left college...
...head of the Congress was Lovett Fort Whiteman. He visited Russia a year ago. He is said to be the Reddest of the Blacks. He is well educated, a polyglot, an orator. He told the Congress...