Word: knight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old Mrs. Davis, having been a professional pianist at the age of 10, having mothered five children, and taken a fling at Tin Pan Alley (Yon Are the Reason for My Love Song), had decided on a plunge into serious composition. The result, a symphonic poem, The Last Knight, based on some mystical verses by the late G. K. Chesterton, got solicitous treatment from Conductor Monteux, Composer Davis' brother-in-law. Like the now classic Negro Rhapsody of John Powell which followed it, Mrs, Davis' opus was agreeably straightforward. Her knight errant did a good deal...
Less excitable readers found it easy to keep off the floor, catalogued The Flying Yorkshireman as consisting of: 1) a fantasy by Eric Knight about a man who discovered he could fly, amusing but stretched thin; 2) a sentimental story by Helen Hull about a dentist's wife who wins a $10,000 novel contest; 3) a realistic report on New Year's Eve in a flop house, by Albert Maltz; 4) a whimsy about a girl whose poetic sprightliness enchants a middle-aged doctor, by 24-year-old Rachel Maddux; 5) a sentimental reminiscence of childhood...
ACTS OF BLACK NIGHT-Kathleen Moore Knight-Crime Club...
...Mary Knight-Macmillan ($3). Lively memoirs of a successful woman foreign correspondent, until eight years ago a stay-at-home Atlanta girl. No oracle on world affairs, her book reflects the nerve, nervous energy and Southern charm that got her to the top so quickly...
...States we have to deal with are not idealists and sentimentalists, but cold, hardheaded. ruthless, determined men. . . . Such men are more easily impressed by high explosives than by high objectives. "We are not our brother's keeper and we cannot go running about all over Europe like a knight-errant rescuing damsels in distress. It is not our job to play the part of an amiable Don Quixote...