Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bellboys, chambermaids and elevator operators, conventionally as dumb and docile as the hotel furniture, impertinently sprawled down in lobbies and lounges, left them littered with cigaret butts and wastepaper, refused to serve food, carry bags, make beds, man elevators. Smelling trouble, managers of the Book-Cadillac, Detroit-Leland and Fort Shelby tried to lock out the bulk of their employes, but a flying squad of would-be sit-downers crashed the Book-Cadillac, one pistol shot being fired in the scrimmage...
Promptly the dead monster's manager offered the body to famed Tulane University in New Orleans, "because Jack always wished some school be given the opportunity to study his glandular system."* The surviving next of kin, Sister Katharine Eckert, 74, of Fort Wayne, Ind., agreed. But Tulane refused the offer because fat cadavers are useless for the study of anatomy. Hinted, also, were Tulane's fears that Jack's sister might change her mind at the last moment or that there might be legal complications about getting a body across the Alabama-Louisiana State line for anatomical...
JACK H. HOTT Manager Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce Fort Worth...
...rarely actualized figures like Grant, Forrest, Bragg, Longstreet and Polk appear, are marred by many a lampy smudge. The narrative opens after the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run to Northerners), once gets dangerously near Gone With the Wind territory, touches such historic happenings as the fall of Fort Donelson, Forrest's raid on Murfreesboro, the Battle of Chickamauga. Principal characters are the Allard family, aristocratic Kentuckians. Jim, the elder son, lamed by a riding accident, stayed home; but Ned went, was captured, finally released from a Yankee prison a broken man. George Rowan married one of the Allard...
...District Court at Fort Worth, Tex. last fortnight, Florist Lester Harrison and his wife traced heavy steps. In a petition offered to Judge Frank P. Culver Jr. they set forth that their son Robert, 22, contributed nothing to the family living, would not get out of the house. They asked for and got a temporary injunction forbidding Son Robert entrance to their home. Said Mrs. Harrison: "I'm sorry it had to happen, but under the circumstances it was the least painful thing to do. It was simply a case of a child ruling his parents...