Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...valor, promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. At the head of a troop of Kentucky National Guardsmen in 1921 he put down a riot in strike-torn Newport, was promoted to Brigadier General of the National Guard. Grateful Newporters presented him with a saddle horse, and for similar service citizens of Fort later gave him a set of silver. But as the years passed, hard-bitten General Denhardt won the dislike of many a Kentuckian for his use of troops in labor troubles. As Lieutenant-Governor of Kentucky from 1923 to 1927, he was praised as one of the best presiding officers...
...From Portland the King sped to his snuggery, Fort Belvedere, 30 miles outside London, and was joined by Mrs. Simpson for the weekend. A reporter crawling that night among the giant rhododendrons ascertained that jazz was blaring and every window of the snuggery ablaze, before he was picked out by the electric torch of a constable too wise to make an arrest which would have made headlines...
...whom he is briskly slapping into mundane consciousness. Caption: "Life Begins." First LIFE feature, Franklin Roosevelt's Wild West, showed how WPA workers disport themselves in frontier style in the bars and dance halls of the new-hatched towns of New Deal and Wheeler, Mont., where the vast Fort Peck Dam project is under way. Prize shot: A pile of tangled wire dumped outside a rooming house, captioned, "The only idle bedsprings in 'New Deal' are the broken ones." Dispatched to the Northwest for some of her famed construction shots, Photographer Margaret Bourke-White came by chance...
Striking was the juxtaposition of two seldom seen, well-guarded fortresses: Kentucky's Fort Knox, where the U. S. Treasury is to move most of its gold bullion, and Britain's equally obscure Fort Belvedere, where Edward VIII goes for week ends with his U. S. friend, Mrs. Simpson. For scientifically-minded readers, LIFE depicted, with explicit captions, the cannibal romance of the famed Black Widow spider, who devours her mate when done with...
...Town Hall of Fort Worth, Tex. invited Elliott Roosevelt (second son) to introduce his fifth-cousin-once-removed, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., when she came to town to lecture on "Life in the Philippines." Informed of the invitation, she wrote Elliott that her husband's political views "differed in every respect from those of your father, the President. It would be embarrassing to all concerned for you to appear." Elliott obliged...