Word: galahads
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...started the Galahad Press in Asheville, N.C., to publish the New Liberator. The Press lasted four years, and Publisher Pelley was tried, convicted and fined in 1935 for violating North Carolina Blue Sky laws by selling stock: 1) in an insolvent company which he had represented as being in sound condition; 2) without registering as a securities dealer in North Carolina. On Pelley's promise to be good, the sentence was suspended...
...Between Galahad Eden and Appeaser Neville Chamberlain was Sir Robert, trying on the one hand to come to terms with Germany, on the other to set a limit to British retreat. He came into conflict with both Eden and the appeasers, and at the end of 1937 he lost his job as Permanent Under Secretary. The title of Diplomatic Adviser meant exactly the opposite...
Died. Gustavus Augustus Eisen, 93, Swedish-American biologist (he corresponded with Darwin, found a way to raise figs in California, got Sequoia National Park created to save the big trees), archeologist (he dug up weighty evidence to prove that the Chalice of Antioch was Sir Galahad's Grail), author (he published some no works, the last a huge monograph on Mesopotamian Cylinder-Seals); in Manhattan...
...black-hearted barons, witches, giants and made England a peaceful land with "merry bands of pilgrims telling each other dirty stories on the way to Canterbury." Chief characters of The Ill-Made Knight are ugly, expert Lancelot (le Chevalier Mai Fet), patient, cuckolded Arthur, all-female Guinever, priggish Galahad, whom the less perfect knights loathe...
Bingham told the Eastern District Convention of the American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation that Hutchins is "positively convinced that football has no place in a college program, and, since he has the physique of a Sir Galahad, he is convinced that he speaks with authority...