Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wives were eager to go anyhow. By the time the Barry reaches Bremerhaven, another transport will be at sea, a third preparing to sail. Within a month, some 1,250 wives & children will have passed through New York's Fort Hamilton embarkation center. Said one wife of her husband: "I'd rather live with him in a bomb crater than go on with this separation...
...seamen." Forthwith he commanded "our trusty and well-beloved Sir Christopher Wren, Knight" to build "a small observatory within our park at Greenwich . . . with all convenient speed." Those were bargain days. Sir Christopher tore down a gatehouse in the Tower of London and a fort at Tilbury. With the salvaged stone and timber, and with ?520 from the sale of old gunpowder, he ran up a building on a grassy bank of the Thames, well out in the country where the sky was as apt to be clear as average English sky. It was designed, he explained, "for the observer...
...Buffalo, the sensation-of-the-week was one Edward O'Dea, who toured downtown gin mills after having publicly taken a poke at U.S. Senator Jim Mead. Fort Worth had something to goggle about, too. Publisher Amon Carter. Fort Worth's native sun, moon and stars who embarrasses even Texans by his Texasity. had reserved two whole floors of the Blackstone Hotel for guests at his daughter's wedding. In Atlanta, the Tulip Show made wonderful conversation: it had been necessary to import 45,000 plants because local flowers had bloomed two weeks too soon...
...Fort Knox...
Schwieger was once conductor at the Staatsoper in Berlin. Fort Wayne had him now because he had married a Jewess. When the Nazis took over, his wife divorced him for his sake, but without his knowledge. He came to the U.S. via Japan, then sent for his wife and remarried her. After Pearl Harbor the FBI seized Schwieger as an enemy alien; he was held for 401 days until friends got him out. The day he came home from jail, his wife dropped dead...