Word: knight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knight Without Armor (London Films) exhibits Marlene Dietrich as an unkillable countess, escaping from Russia during the revolution with the aid of a British spy. When first seen, in 1913, Countess Alexandra (Dietrich) and A. J. Fotheringill (Robert Donat) are watching a horse race in England. She is the daughter of a Russian official. He is. a young traveler at home on vacation. They do not meet. By the time they encounter each other for the first time it is 1917. A. J., long imprisoned in Siberia for complicity in a Red plot, is now a member...
...Post filed a demurrer on the grounds that White had suffered no damage and that the suit was nonactionable, was upheld in Circuit Court. White appealed to the Alabama Supreme Court, which reversed the lower court and ordered the case remanded in a resounding opinion by Justice Thomas E. Knight Sr.: "The purchase of a girl from her parents, to be carried to some distant country to complete an Arab's harem of four wives, is abhorrent to our American institutions and to our conception of morality, and to falsely and maliciously publish to the world that one stood...
Solemnly the Most Noble Order of the Garter, headed by the King & Queen, shuffled into place, proceeded to St. George's Chapel-the choir of which is the Garter Chapel-to worship together for the first time in 23 years, the second time in 129. Each knight filed into his own stall over which, during his lifetime, hang his sword, helmet, crest and banner...
...stalls were filled. British absentees were the 87-year-old Duke of Connaught, great uncle of King George, who, too feeble to take part in the service, watched the procession from a car outside the Chapel; the Duke of Windsor, a Garter Knight of 26 years' standing.* In a box high on the north wall of the Chapel, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose, dressed in pink, gazed on the sea of blue, scarlet and gold beneath them, soon spotted their mother's father the Earl of Strathmore. This was the first time in 600 years that...
...mellow voice of the Very Reverend Albert Victor Baillie, Dean of Windsor, Chaplain of the Order, led the knights through their service, brightened by the silvery piping of St. George's choir. When it was over the worshippers moved to St. George's Hall in the Castle. There they banqueted beneath the banners of the 26 original knights and the coats-of-arms of every knight in the Order since 1350. They noticed that two of the shields were blank-those of the Duke of Monmouth who rebelled against James II and the pro-Irish Duke of Ormonde...