Word: knight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul van Zeeland had thus spoken in clear, temperate language, His Majesty's Government found the honor and good faith of the United Kingdom engaged and tested. Famed British elder Statesman Sir Austen Chamberlain (who was the chief architect of the Locarno Pact and was made a Knight of the Garter by King George for having erected this supposedly unbreakable barrier to war), vigorously jammed last week into British thinking machines his opinion that, since Germany in 1870 "dictated" to France and stripped her of two provinces, Germany in 1936 has no right to object to what Germans call...
...campus at Homewood, three miles north of Baltimore's business centre. Nonetheless President Bowman soon discovered in his University symptoms of the creeping paralysis caused by financial malnutrition, signs that the decline which Hopkins fears had already begun. Before he had been long in office, famed Experimental Psychologist Knight Dunlap departed after 19 years at Hopkins for University of California, where he had been promised more money for his work. Then versatile Professor Chinard announced that, at this academic year's end, he too would be off to California. There were persistent rumors that other facultymen...
From Sir Joshua Reynolds to the present day the Presidents of the Royal Academy have been sober distinguished gentlemen. No exception is the incumbent, Sir William Llewellyn, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Commander of the Legion of Honor, recipient of the Grand Cross of the Crown of Italy. A painter of Queens, he has produced dozens of slick portraits of Queen Mary for clubs, asylums, other institutions. That ardent water colorist Wilhelmina of The Netherlands is so enamored of his brush that she has made him a Grand Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau. Serious critics prefer...
From the tomb of Diego Garcia, an obscure knight who died in 1286, this reclining figure is unusually well preserved, a remarkable fact when it is considered that very few wooden statues of this period are in existence today...
Typical of this period, portraiture has been subordinated to the artist's desire of representing an ideal knight. The serene, dignified features of the effigy, majestically draped folds of the robe, and the time-scarred yet well preserved surface of the wood lends an atmosphere of permanence to this old statue which has reclined so calmly on its slab for over five centuries...