Word: knight
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Tall, reedy, gentle, devoutly religious and pro-German is Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Viscount Halifax of Monk Bretton in the West Riding of York, Baron Irwin of Kirby Underdale York, Knight of the Garter, onetime Viceroy of India (TIME, May u, 1931, et ante), today Lord President of the Council and Government Leader in the House of Lords. In London, the abrupt decision of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that Lord Halifax should go to visit Adolf Hitler last week came more & more to be regarded as a "humiliation" to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who is not pro-German...
...After 18,000 hours in the air (an average of 2½ hours a day for 20 years) during which he completed 2,400,000 miles of flying, United Air Lines veteran pilot, Captain Jack Knight, was retired to a ground job in Chicago as director of public education. Flyer Knight, now cadaverous, soulful-looking and 44, has more transport hours and miles to his record than any pilot in the U. S. ¶ One night last week, just after announcing his engagement to a Hampshire typist, Britain's Flying Officer A. E. Clouston, using the De Havilland Comet...
...Brought out by the Knight Publishers and on sale last week at $50 was a portfolio of twelve paintings by the most renowned woman painter in the U. S., Georgia O'Keeffe. Approved even by irascible Husband Alfred Stieglitz, the color reproductions of O'Keeffe's suave, austere leaves, peonies and roses were comparable to the famed reproductions of Viennese craftsmen...
Lawyer Shutts as receiver in 1910. Forthwith he liquidated the paper, built upon its ruins the hardy Herald. Like Publisher Knight a successful practitioner of absentee ownership, Publisher Shutts soon had gathered on the side a rich law practice, shortly found himself a rough & ready millionaire of whom 0. O. Mclntyre delighted to write: "A visiting Duchess once asked him his favorite dish and he replied it was the Ohio River mud catfish...
Less colorful than Publisher Shutts, 43-year-old John Knight has made his personality felt through life-long knowledge of editorial practices which click. His father, onetime Representative Charles Landon Knight, left the editorship of the Woman's Home Companion in 1903 to become part-owner of the Akron Beacon-Journal. During vacations from Akron public schools, John Knight served tedious apprenticeships in the mechanical and business departments of his father's paper. Son John was given the managing editorship in 1924, made publisher in 1928. In 1927 John Knight bought the Massillon, Ohio, Independent, is still...