Word: forte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corsham, England, Lieut. Philip Mountbatten presided at the dedication of a new war memorial. Another unveiler, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was back home in Texas, to dedicate a statue of Will Rogers at Fort Worth, while Margaret Truman sang Home on the Range...
...difficult thing for the Navajos to understand. The U.S. had had its chance to kill them after their surrender in 1864. Blue-clad, tobacco-chewing U.S. cavalrymen had rounded them up, marched them like cattle 300 miles from Arizona Territory to New Mexico's Fort Sumner, kept them prisoners for four years. But when the Navajos agreed to peace "from this day forward," they had been freed and helped to start a new life...
...girl, is accused -unjustly, of course-of crime, and is sentenced to 14 years' slavery in North America. The highest bid comes from Captain Cooper of the Virginia militia. A scoundrel, Howard DaSilva, tricks Cooper out of his new property. The picture thereupon settles down in and near Fort Pitt, which every schoolboy will presumably recognize as early Pittsburgh...
...Fort Pitt is a stockaded outpost, threatened by Indians. Scoundrel DaSilva wants war with the Indians and a weak frontier (he is a fur trader). Patriot Cooper wants peace and a strong frontier (he is the stuff that the unborn U.S. is to be made of). DaSilva gets his war and it remains for Cooper to rescue Miss Goddard from the aborigines (Boris Karloff & friends...
...domicile, the number of which was rather obscure. Inquiry was made, at a house in the neighborhood, of a Southern gentleman, who looked so at home beneath the lithograph of the Charge of The First Maryland Regiment At The Death Of Ashby, that he obviously lived in this confederate fort. "What number is this house," we asked. "Man," his polite rejoinder echoed, "I reckon I don't rightly know...