Word: knight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Popular were Dame Laura Knight's studies of ballet girls and a circus scene. Of the ballet girls the London Times proudly said, "Right in size, graceful in movement and subtle in tone, with just the difference from Degas to bespeak an English and a feminine vision...
...Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Bishop of London, the Right Honorable Leslie Hore-Belisha. It included Battersea Twilight, two pictures of Plymouth Sound, a great number of hunting scenes, the usual Spring in Cornwall, this time by the Academy's first and only full-fledged female member, Laura Knight, Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. It had an extraordinary supply of studies of English bars, the Academician's favorite resource when he wants to get down to life in the raw. Even the nudes were all thoroughly English, blonde, straight, healthy, respectable...
...attempts to save the life of the world's most famed hemophiliac came to light last week when the onetime Crown Prince of Spain returned to Manhattan after a winter's painful stay in Havana. Alfonso Pio Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, Knight of the Golden Fleece, was born Prince of Asturias 29 years ago next month. He grew up to be a sufferer from hemophilia. His skin is thin, his muscles soft, and his blood does not clot. Consequently a slight cut or bruise may start a fatal hemorrhage, as slight cuts...
...Joseph John Shinners, 54, a 6-ft. 4-in., 255-lb. Irish Democrat who was a first-rate rough-&-tumble policeman in Milwaukee's old days, went into the trucking-&-warehouse business in 1912 and since 1932 has been the able sheriff of Milwaukee County. A Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus and father of ten, Candidate Shinners is expected to draw a strong Catholic vote. He is also backed by the American Legion and the Nazi Friends of New Germany. Asked whether it is true that he never got past the fourth grade in school, he replies...
...married. Currently Bishop Matthews is engrossed with a slowly rising, million-dollar cathedral of his own, to which Trenton's bridge-building Roeblings have been generous. Nearing 70, Bishop Matthews has indicated a wish to retire. The man who has served as his Bishop Coadjutor, Albion Williamson Knight, retired last autumn because of his years (76). Offered this post with the right of succession, Manhattan's Dr. Gardner, a stocky, affable bachelor of 52, announced his acceptance last Sunday...