Word: knight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern England does not produce great painters was partly explained by England's greatest living woman painter this week when Dame Laura Knight, first and only full-fledged female member of the Royal Academy, published her autobiography...
Last week the British League of Nations Union deserted even by Nobel Peace Knight Sir Austen Chamberlain, was cutting its staff, slashing wages, rapidly folding up in a state of gloom...
...British Minister to Addis Ababa, heroic Sir Sidney Barton, was in London last week on a "leave" from which His Excellency is most unlikely to return to Ethiopia. He was bidden to Buckingham Palace and decorated by His Majesty with the Order of Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire for having withstood a hot siege of the British Legation by Ethiopians who proved themselves savages of the most ferocious type as soon as their Emperor fled his country (TIME...
...make His Highness "doubly aware" of Britain's gratitude, he and two stalwart sons were received by King Edward, who dubbed the oily Sheik a Knight Commander of the British Empire. By way of amusement His Highness was taken to the greyhound races at White City. Scrutinizing the dogs, the Sheik said: "I have a system based on the shape of the dog, his shoulder action and muscular development." In each of the eight races of the evening Sheik Sir Hamad followed his "system" to bet upon one dog. Of his eight choices...
...vigorously devout Catholic, Adman MacManus is a Knight of Malta, a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory, an honorary doctor from Notre Dame, Detroit and Marquette Universities. Practiced at writing books such as Men, Money & Motors and The Sword Arm of Business, he turned to Catholic apologetics in An Enemy Sowed Cockles. Sympathetic with the interest of Pope Pius XI in Chinese education, Layman MacManus helped found the Catholic University of Peiping. All this smoothed the way for a request he made of the Holy See five years ago. Of the six MacManus sons and daughters...