Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Race Relations Commission has a gold star for the Methodists, it may well put a black mark by the names of two others. Last week, in the closing session of the Presbyterian assembly in Denver (see below), it was decided that the next meeting should take place in Fort Worth, Tex. Arose Negro Missionary Irvin W. Underbill Jr. to object against "any place where a Negro cannot be treated as a man and as a brother." He urged the other Negro delegates thus to go on record. Moderator Charles W. Kerr expostulated. The motion to meet in Fort Worth...
WILD TALENTS-Charles Fort-Kendall...
...predicted by the late Charles Fort, when the years B. C. and A. D., lumped together, will be referred to as the period B. W. (Before Witchcraft), professors of the new regime will, like the ancient alchemists, need paraphernalia to advertise their trade. Post-Einsteinian runes will decorate their doors, philosopher's stones, alembics, superhuman skeletons their cells. From their ceilings (relatively) will hang dried four-dimen-sional alligators-their entrails furnished by alligator-stuffers like Author Fort. Some fine wads of his superior stuffing are to be found in this book...
...collector of notes on subjects that have diversity-such as deviations from concentricity in the lunar crater Copernicus, and a sudden appearance of purple Englishmen," Author Fort found chief interest less in single marvels than in marvelous relations and coincidence. With humorous seriousness he retells here, mostly from newspaper sources, scores of gruesome or simply inexplicable incidents, tries to find a place for them in his philosophy. Rabid vampires, with white streaks of froth on their bloody mouths, flitting through the jungles of Trinidad seem to him connected with more human affairs. In 1867 a fishing smack set sail from...
...famous Frost case in London in 1921 gives Author Fort food for speculation. A load of coal took to exploding in the Frost family grates, hopped out, rolled across the floors, went through walls without leaving a trace behind. Flatirons and coal buckets danced. One of the Frost children died of fright. Thoroughly investigated by the police and others, the phenomena were never denied. About the same time there were violent explosions of British coal in France, Belgium, Switzerland. Author Fort calls attention to the fact that it was a period of violent oppression and bitterness in the British coal...