Word: knight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could find a cubistic treatment of planes; in a fantasy by the Flemish painter Pietr Huys, Carnival Scene, were strange suspensions of rods and dangling objects like the "mobiles" of U. S. Artist Alexander Calder. Two duelists on skates approach each other with impedimenta as weird as the White Knight's. One of them grins from within a birdcage-topped barrel, while the other, armed with poker & tongs, crouches under the carapace of a sheep-skull. A bored hermit reclining in the background is ostentatiously not interested...
After leaving Madrid comparatively alone for three weeks, Rightist artillery last week began dropping in shells at methodical, nerve-racking intervals. Some burst in the onetime Royal armory, beloved of tourists, where many a romantic visitor has discovered that in days of old each noble knight wore a sponge in the crotch of his iron trousers. Meantime, disclosed last week were the shocking circumstances, hitherto unsuspected by most Spaniards, in which last autumn the Leftist Cabinet, then headed by Premier Largo Caballero ("The Spanish Lenin") took flight from Madrid...
...Meistersinger, heard his favorite tenor, soulful-looking Eyvind Lahome (nè plain Victor Johnson of Birmingham, Ala.). Despite Der Fuhrer's frequent blasts against the U. S. in general, Herr Hitler applauds U. S. Citizen Lahome in particular as the ideal interpreter of Walther the Wagnerian knight, has awarded him the rare State title of Kammersänger. Freely Der Führer admitted last week that a dozen rasping speeches, plus hours standing with right arm rising and falling as the party members passed in review are always a "personal and physical strain," and he welcomed the cool...
Leading parts in Song on Your Bugles are assigned to a poor boy who has the makings of a great artist and the Yorkshire factories which work for his defeat. Few novelists are ever able to write convincingly about either genius or working-class life. Eric Knight's credible portrayal of both, plus his skillful handling of an idiomatic locale, combine to make his novel outstanding on any grounds; as an example of that rare work, a really dramatic "proletarian" novel, it is more remarkable still...
...LIFE & DEATH-Knight Publications, New York...