Word: garters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England's mellowest legends concerns a Countess of Salisbury who found her garter slipping, in the merry, ardent days of Edward III (1312-77). Down and down slipped the garter until it tumbled before the knowing eyes of a pack of smirking courtiers. But Edward III, with instant chivalry, stooped, retrieved the ribbon, tied it just below his own royal knee, and exclaimed to the Courtiers in immortal reproof: "Honi soit qui mal y pense!" (Evil be to him who evil thinks...
...heart specialist who is pursued by all ladies. The principal pursuer is a widow with a bevy of husbands in her past. The lady in love breaks up the doctor's marriage and saves him for herself by shooting pearls at the bride, groom and minister from a garter-and-curling-tongs slingshot...
...Majesty did, however, create him a Knight of the Garter...
...stop an attack of hiccoughing which hung upon me last week for two days and two nights. It would have afforded me small comfort to know that King George V's chaplain, the Very Rev. Dean Albert Victor Baillie of St. George's (Knights of the Garter) Chapel at Windsor Castle, England, was similarly afflicted in Manhattan four years ago, while visiting at the home of Arthur Curtiss James, financier, yachtsman, railroader...
...neighbors-of the young men who years ago flew in France, affected surprise and concern upon discovering that it was not, after all, a very "nice" war. The young men hated their duty and believed, according to this writer, that the best talisman for an airman was "a garter taken from the left leg of a virgin in the dark of the moon...