Word: galahads
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...Empress belongs not to that eminent and bulldoggish publisher, Lord Tilbury but to Clarence, the sleepy and pig-mad Earl of Emsworth, whose brother. Hon. Galahad Threepwood, has written and suppressed a book of racy reminiscences which Lord Tilbury yearns to publish, and whose Empress has lately been nobbled (kidnapped) and is by way of being nobbled again. Which is why Lord Tilbury is seized by his beefy scruff and thrust into a dark and dirty shed. And why young Monty Bodkin, his discharged subeditor, regains employment with His Lordship. And why, since the ms. of the racy reminiscences...
...vault of the Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust Co. on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, lies a silver cup of great antiquity. It is believed by many to be the Holy Grail which according to legend vanished mysteriously after Sir Galahad took it to the city of Sarras in the East. The cup is known as the Great Chalice of Antioch, where it was discovered in 1910 by some excavating Arabs. It has been since 1914 the property of Fahim Joseph Kouchakji. a Syrian Catholic born in Aleppo who became a U. S. citizen last week. Art Collector Kouchakji was planning last...
...date later than the ist Century. That date has been challenged by some experts, including Professor Charles Rufus Morey of Princeton, but is supported by Professors Arthur Bernard Cook of Cambridge and Josef Strzygowski of Vienna. If they are correct, then Kouchakji's Chalice may indeed be Galahad's Grail, the true cup of Jesus. For history records no other important Christian cup in the century of the Lord...
...send boys and girls to college not because that is the time in which they learn best, but because we ourselves have learned no better place to send them during that period of callow, unformed youth." With these words the conqueror of the Tennysonian Galahad continues his illusion-shattering march...
Professor John Erskine of Columbia University, who has since come to fame as a novelist (The Private Life of Helen of Troy, Galahad, Adam and Eve), was sent to France during the War as education chief for the A. E. F. Early in 1918 he visited the front lines of the French Army. He wrote some sonnets about what he saw and felt. Some of the verses, "At the Front . . . First Impressions," he gave to Franklin Pierce Adams ("F. P. A."), now the New York World's famed colyumist, then a staffman on The Stars & Stripes...