Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Snuggery, Fort Belvedere, 30 miles from London: With the King and Mrs. Simpson confer three men trusted by His Majesty as old friends and faithful servitors, whose characters can be accurately read in their faces (see cut, p. 22): Major Ulick Alexander, Keeper of the Privy Purse; Sir Godfrey Thomas, Assistant Private Secretary; and Lieut...
...driven straight through in 20&3189; hours from Blois with only briefest stops, arrives to find haven with these old friends whom she first knew in China. In her bedroom a private telephone line and special hookup for instant connection through to England has been installed. Mrs. Simpson calls Fort Belvedere. At Cannes the first statement made for her is handed to reporters at the Hotel Majestic by Peregrine Francis Adelbert Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow, close friend of Edward VIII: "The following is an official statement. . . . Mrs. Simpson, throughout the last few weeks, invariably has wished to avoid any action...
Because she had been sneezing every few minutes since Oct. 9, Mary Margaret Cleer, 13, daughter of a Fort Myer, Va. gasoline station attendant, last week held the attention of a great many curious laymen and puzzled doctors. No one knew what caused the prolonged sneezing fit which had racked the child to skin & bones and put a constant, haggard sneer on her face...
RANDOLPH L. FORT...
Then the Indianapolis cast off, the guns of Fort Moultrie fired a Presidential salute and Franklin Roosevelt disappeared hull down over the public horizon. Through daylight and darkness he ploughed ahead at 25 knots for three whole days during which the nearest newshawks were the three representatives of the press associations who followed with the Secret Service men half a mile behind on the cruiser Chester. On the fourth morning when the cruisers dropped anchor to refuel at Port of Spain, Trinidad, the newshawks had a peek at him. Only news they got was that he and his mother...