Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fort Myers, Fla., a physician who visited Negro James Glover in the count) jail found him suffering from paralysis of the right arm, pulled an ice pick three and one-half inches long out of James Glover's brain without an anesthetic. James Glover had not known it was there guessed it must have been driven in during a fight. Said he: "It sure does feel better...
...Raven" has lost none of his salty skill. John Quincy Adams is the "thin-lipped, perspiring New Englander, who had spent a third of his life abroad"; James Monroe "The raw-boned, six-foot President . . . a shy man, an able lieutenant, though a mediocre chief." There is young "Capt. Fort, speaking freely and a trifle importantly"; and plump little Rachel, "a frontier woman, clinging to the fragile images of a bygone day that had witnessed her last touch with happiness." Mr. James sketches these and a hundred more with sure, positive strokes. When Andrew Jackson speaks on these pages...
...Best big-hat customer is Tom Mix, who buys them by the dozen, white or cream. Another is Publisher Amon Giles Carter of Fort Worth who pays $40 to $125 each, gives them away to Fort Worth visitors such as Lord Rothermere, Will Rogers, Jack Dempsey...
...dusk the Nourmahal rounded Manhattan Island, shoved its knife-edged nose through Hell Gate and out into Long Island Sound. By morning it was anchored in Fort Pond Bay near Montauk Point. Because the weather was drizzly, the President lazed about all day, reading, resting. The third day, wearing only a pair of duck trousers, he went off fishing on the sloop Orca under the guidance of bronzed, taciturn Captain Herman Gray, who used to take President Hoover out sailfishing in Florida. President Roosevelt & party got only some sea bass and porgies, no swordfish, no bluefish. one tuna. Remarked Captain...
Married. Alexander Perry Osborn, Manhattan broker, eldest son of famed Paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn; and one Marie Cantrell Belew of Fort Worth, Tex., onetime dress model; in London...