Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mudd set it. Later that day the horsemen galloped away. The injured one was John Wilkes Booth. For his services, Dr. Mudd found himself suspected of being party to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He was court martialed, with seven other suspects, sentenced to life imprisonment in Fort Jefferson, on the dry Tortugas, off the southern tip of Florida. He tried to escape, failed, was put in a solitary dungeon. When yellow fever killed the prison's doctor and scores of its 1,000 convicts, Dr. Mudd volunteered his services, worked heroically to stem the epidemic. In the spring...
...Warner Baxter, rolling his eyes with suitable agony at the world's injustice. Remembering the success of Les Misèrables, in which Charles Laughton gave a memorable interpretation of a tireless detective, Producer Zanuck inserted a similar character to add to Dr. Mudd's torments at Fort Jefferson: a lean & mean chief warden (John Carradine). A sharp-tongued, suspicious prison doctor was well played by 0. P. Heggie, who died two weeks after his role was finished. The picture is a splendid example of biographical melodrama which should appall its audiences, enrich its producers and remind Hollywood...
Sirs: If the picture on p. 6r of TIME, Feb. 3, is my good friend Harry Wherrett then I am Haile Selassie. C. B. WlLLARD Fort Smith...
That His Majesty remains personally fit & fleet. King Edward showed by donning shorts in which he ran last week from Fort Belvedere three miles to Windsor Lodge. Most dignified and well received was the King's first message to Parliament, read by the Comptroller of His Majesty's Household, thrifty Sir George Penny...
...Bedeviled by the problem of how the votes of the West were to be won in 1936 without the aid of AAA, President Roosevelt drove out to see the annual military pageant at Fort Myer, Va. This year's subject: "The Winning of the West...