Word: forte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rapids Herald-the paper to which he came as a cub the same night in 1902 that Frank Knox also applied for work. To that house went his first wife, Elizabeth Watson, mother of his three children, who died in 1916. Two years later he married Hazel Whittaker of Fort Wayne, Ind., took her home there...
Those who will be proctors in the Law School living quarters are Francis A. Goodhue, Jr. 3L., Hewlett, L.I., N.Y.; Harry W. henry, Jr. 2L., St. Louis, Mo.; Philip H. Irwin 2L., Fort Collins, Colo.; Ronald C. Rooschlaub 3L., Los Angeles, Calif.; Norman P. Seagrave 3L., Fall River, Mass.; and Ernest J. Zack 3L., St. Paul, Minn...
...result of their tests has been to replace old-style burlap and fishnet "flattops" for concealing big guns and trucks with new style drapes made of visinet, a light, durable paper compound. Fort Belvoir camoufleurs "dazzled" visinet drapes with green blotches to resemble vegetation, burnt sienna blotches to blend with Virginia clay soil. Solid color drapes they painted with a mixture of blue, yellow and red oil paints, producing a somewhat greener green than the usual olive drab of U. S. Army trucks. For solid brown drapes they mixed flat burnt umber and yellow ochre coldwater paints, made drapes look...
...flagpole of Baltimore's Fort McHenry, men in War of 1812 uniforms raised an American flag with 15 stars. Breasting slowly up the Patapsco River came a Coast Guard picket boat, opened fire with its single small forward gun as cannon from the fort returned rounds of blanks. At battle's end the flag on the fort still waved proudly. Thus re-enacted last week on its 125th anniversary was the episode which inspired Lawyer Francis Scott Key to write The Star-Spangled Banner...
...proceedings was Lawyer Key's lean and leathery great-grandson, Lieut. Colonel Francis Scott Key-Smith, who hyphenates his name "because there are so darn many Smiths." Pleased was he that a painting of his ancestor, peering through dawn's early light, was unveiled in Fort McHenry by Mrs. Reuben Ross Holloway, the tireless patriot who in 1931 helped make The Star-Spangled Banner the official as well as the actual national anthem. But so ill-pleased was he by the political overtones of an address by Presidential Aspirant Paul V. McNutt that he slipped quietly...