Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fort Wayne...
Things start with one of those tidy little coincidences necessary to full implausibility. Link Jones (Gary Cooper), a onetime gunslinger who has been improving his character by homesteading for two decades, sets out on a train for Fort Worth to bring back a schoolteacher for his town. With him on the train are two other travelers with speaking roles-Julie London as a café singer, and Arthur...
Lawyer Edgar Eisenhower and Major General Louis W. Truman, the new commandant of Washington's Fort Lewis, met for the first time, paired off as golfing partners in Tacoma, were calling each other "Edgar" and "Louie" by the time they stepped onto the first green. When Truman was asked about his relationship with the former president, he said: "We're cousins." Ike's brother could empathize. "In that case, Louie, I suppose you've got the same kind of problem I have." Said Truman: "I think yours is worse than mine...
...gypsy woman first sang the song to Folklorist John A. Lomax in Fort Worth, and in no time he made it one of the most famous cowboy songs in the land. Traveling in a model A Ford, with his young son Alan as an occasional companion, he took the song with him on his far-ranging folk-song safaris in the 1930's, twanged it at campfires and from college platforms. Two decades later in Dublin, carrying on his father's research, Alan Lomax heard Irish Folklorist Seamus Ennis sing an almost identical Irish lay about...
However, Hurlburt's tour of duty with the Army should serve as at least a feeble approximation to University dining conditions. While at Fort Bragg he was assistant director of the Officers' mess which served 3,500 members...