Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entire history of England no one ever picked up the gauntlet of the King's Champion and offered to fight...
This was well calculated to make the King feel like a worm or sardine, † but Edward VIII found an unexpected press champion next morning in Viscount Rothermere. T his noble Lord's mass London organ, the Daily Mail (which has eight times the circulation of the Times), came out with a smashing pro-King-Emperor and anti-Prime Minister editorial. Recalling Stanley Baldwin's recent bumbling admission in the House of Commons that he would have told the public of the war danger Britain faces except that he was afraid that would lose him the last General...
...hereditary duties of the King's Champion are to "gird himself in complete armor," ride out upon a noble charger, fling down his gauntlet, offer to fight all "liars and traitors" who asperse King Edward. With becoming English modesty and shyness, Frank Seaman Dymoke, presenting once more the 14th Century claim of his family to serve as the King's Champion, offered and requested merely to be allowed to carry the Royal Standard of England, because for the last 115 years the Dymokes have not as King's Champions girt themselves in complete armor or challenged...
Died- Billy Papke, 50, oldtime (1907-08; 1911-13) world's middleweight boxing champion, Los Angeles saloon "greeter"; by his own hand (revolver), after shooting and killing his divorced wife Edna, 46; on Balboa Island, Calif. Against Champion Stanley Ketchel in 1907, Papke scored a twelfth-round knockout after punching his opponent's head instead of shaking his hand, as they entered the ring. Ketchel punished him severely in a return bout...
...recently instituted 1936-37 squash season is now in full swing. The prospects for the Varsity are good, despite the fact that E. Rotan sargent, Richard W. Gilder, and Germaine G. Glidden, the latter being both the National and Intercollegiate champion, have graduated. It appears that the Varsity will have no particular individual stars, but a strong team...