Word: knight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pact and to get Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha in a frame of mind to sign it has been the triumph of British High Commissioner for Egypt Sir Miles Lampson. Many London papers called him "The Prince of Pacificators"-this accolade reputedly having been bestowed by Sir Austen Chamberlain, Knight of the Garter, who received his knighthood for having been one of the co-makers of the Treaty of Locarno...
...Case was brought to a decent close last week. To Actress Mary Astor, suing her onetime husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, for full custody of their 4-year-old daughter, the Los Angeles Superior Court awarded the child for nine months a year. Before rendering his decision, Judge Goodwin J. Knight called for Miss Astor's diary in which she recorded her irregular love life and which Dr. Thorpe's lawyers tried to use obliquely to disqualify her as a fit mother. After four hours of reading the manuscript from cover to cover Judge Knight ordered the diary impounded...
...Judge Knight's only further interest in the case proved to be Playwright George S. Kaufman (Dinner at Eight, Of Thee I Sing). Depicted as the "Perfect Lover" in Actress Astor's memoirs, Kaufman had ignored a subpoena to testify. Before a warrant for his arrest could be served on him, he had secretly fled from Hollywood to Manhattan. "There won't be any settlement for Kaufman," fumed Judge Knight. "I'll put him away for a while to cool off if he ever comes back into the jurisdiction of this court! He could write quite...
...portraits. Self-supporting in Nottingham, she gave private art lessons, got a few small commissions, finally a scholarship. Her ally through these hard years was a young man several years ahead of her in the Nottingham Art School, as poor and as able as she. His name was Harold Knight, and in 1903 she married him. Same year she got her first picture accepted by the Royal Academy, sold it at once. After that her struggles were practically over...
...Royal Academy elected her an associate member and one year later, Husband Harold. As she points out in Oil Paint and Grease Paint, the late Annie Louisa Swynnerton deserves the reputation Laura Knight has been given of being the first woman elected to the Academy since the 18th Century. In 1929 Laura Knight was made a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire...