Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Johnson & Friends. Only the last part of General Johnson's life has been spent outside the service. They had hardly stopped shooting Indians near Fort Scott, Kans. when he was born there in 1882. He graduated from West Point, promptly married a colonel's daughter. To eke out a cavalry second lieutenant's pay. he wrote a pair of boys' books: Williams of West Point, Williams on Service. A law degree from the University of California made him eligible for the Judge Advocate General's Department in 1916. Odd jobs in the Army: feeding...
...Fort Clark...
...British concern accepted it first. It was the rage in every London music-hall before a New York house would gamble on it. Even then few copies were sold here until the U. S. entered the War. Then regimental band-masters seized on it. In Oklahoma's Fort Sill thousands of raw recruits began to swelter to it. In Massachusetts' Devens thousands more shivered to it. Camp Gordon's men shaved to it, groomed horses to it, built roads to it. They sang it whether they wanted to or not. The Government's morale-boosters made...
...both of us. ... I am not in love with any woman. I am going to devote all my energy to making good in my life work-aviation." He denied as "absolutely untrue'' reports of a romance with one Ruth Googins, 25-year-old Wellesley graduate of Fort Worth...
...whose friends range from Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd to Accordionist Phil Baker, he owns the quiet, fashionable Ambassador East, the gayer Ambassador West where Ernie Byfield entertains leading stage and screen folk, the Sherman where Ben Bernie is master of ceremonies in the College Inn night club, and the Fort Dearborn, a low-priced house catering to railroad workers. Ernie Byfield is president of College Inn Products, Inc. (not in receivership) which claims to have invented the tomato juice cocktail. Last year as a publicity stunt he imported 20 dozen penguin eggs. The Customs House promptly impounded the eggs...