Word: knight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into a British subject the jobless longtime (1920-38) Minister of Austria to the Court of St. James's, Baron Georg Franckenstein (who in spite of his beaked nose is an Aryan); 2) King George VI called his new subject to Buckingham Palace, dubbed him Sir George Franckenstein, Knight...
...weekly broadcast on station WMCA (Manhattan), dramatizing pious chronicles. For Galahad's role in his dramatization of the quest for the Holy Grail, businesslike Father Patrick would have none of WMCA's actors, demanded one who would measure up not only to his conception of the pure knight's appearance, but his moral character...
...diligent students of baseball knew that Philip Knight ("P. K.") Wrigley, multimillionaire Cub owner whose family had sunk millions in the club, was not satisfied. Owner Wrigley wanted his team in first place. He wanted the Cubs as animated as the pixies that perform on his famed Broadway electric sign. To discover the reason for their failure to be so, he had hired a University of Illinois professor to psychoanalyze the team. After studying the professor's findings, P. K. Wrigley, Andover-bred, decided last week that a new spark plug was needed...
...commit murder, assault with intent to commit murder, and malicious use of explosives, the first of which carries a possible death penalty. For nine weeks the Kynette trial has been Southern California's biggest political circus. District Attorney Fitts, eagerly re-establishing himself as a legal White Knight, extracted testimony that the Kynette squad of 17 "supersnoopers" got its orders directly from the mayor's brother and secretary, Joseph Shaw, a retired naval lieutenant. Lists of the persons spied on were introduced, including Mayor Shaw's last opponent, John Anson Ford, other local politicians and publishers, District...
...Phillippe Dur '35, of New York; Marcel Francon, instructor in romance languages, of Cambridge; Rolline McC. Gallagher '34, of Milton; James E. Gardner, Jr. '36, of Ardsley-on-Hundson, N. Y.; Richard B. Johnson '36, of Swampscott; John Lydenberg, of Scarsdale, N. Y.; Woods McCahill '37, of Willoughby, O.; Knight W. McMahan '33, assistant in Philosophy, of Flora, Ill.; Thomas L. Mikules '30, assistant in English, of Boston; Branford P. Millar '35, assistant in English, of Cambridge; Malcolm D. Perkins '36, of Milton; Joseph H. Phillips '35, of Dearborn, Mich.; Cecil F. Rowe, of Indianapolis, Ind.; Stephen H. Stackpole...