Word: grail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less forced upon him by the first Elaine. There was never a fonder father nor prouder, nor ever one more vexed by his offspring's priggishness. For when Galahad left Camelot to seek (as legend soon had it) "the holiest thing in the world," and hence the Grail, it was not so much the quest that lured him as the necessity for a quest that drove him. He had just learned of his irregular birth and, to cap that, of his father's guilty love with Guinevere-wIth Guinevere, embodiment of all perfections, inculcatrix of his brightest ideals...
...expense by deputing an angel to put us at the top of St. Peter's waiting list. We admire King Arthur, who gave Anglia a good administration and checked the Saxon crime wave more than Sir Galahad who went off by himself to catch a glimpse of the Holy Grail, although the latter achieved what we prize above all else, Success...
...years ago he talked from a wheel chair, said of his opponent: "No knightlier spirit than Edgar Watkins ever went to worthy combat or shivered lance at Camelot or Stirling." Himself lost in Camelot's misty lore, Knight Upshaw may often think in terms of questing a Holy Grail...
...grail for him is a wineglass, empty, upside down. He speaks for Prohibition (sometimes at $100 a speech from the Anti-Saloon League) fanatically,* beautifully,*interminably...
...Square Rooms, his triumph was complete. M. Koussevitzky will please the lover of rhythm, and of another century too, tonight, when he conducts the "Pini Di Roma" of Respighi. I shall Union. It has always been my opinion that the Everest climbers were our modern seekers for the Holy Grail,--surely there is a gallantry about the death of Mallory which cannot be denied. However, my choice is made, and it will be Sanders Theatre for me at S, and not the Union...