Word: knight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most extraordinary and most typically British characters that Alice met on the other side of the looking glass was the White Knight. To be prepared for "everything" he carried not only tin armor and a helmet, but also a sandwich box, a mousetrap, fire-irons, carrots, a beehive; and his horse was equipped with anti-sharkbite anklets. Great Britain was last week compared to the White Knight by more than one Briton, and the parallel was just...
Married. Michael Whitney Straight, 23, son of the late Willard Dickerman Straight, founder of the New Republic and Asia, and of Mrs. Leonard Knight Elm-hirst, queen of Dartington Hall, vast educational experiment in Devonshire, England; and Belinda Booth Crompton, 19; in Wilton...
...Presidents, twelve have been known Masons: George Washington (Past Master), James Monroe, Andrew Jackson (Grand Master), James K. Polk (Royal Arch), James Buchanan (Past Master), Andrew Johnson (32nd Degree), James A. Garfield (14th Degree), William McKinley (Knight Templar), Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Warren G. Harding (33rd Degree), Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd Degree). (Whether Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were Masons is a moot question...
Five Came Back, his third job there, cost approximately $230,000, shows clearly that quality is not all a matter of budget digits. A papal knight, in recognition of his Catholic writings which include a biography, Damien the Leper, published in 1937, once-divorced John Farrow is married to Cinemactress Maureen O'Sullivan, last month became the father...
Married. Emlen Knight Davies, 22, daughter of U. S. Ambassador to Belgium Joseph E. Davies by his first wife, Emlen Knight; and Robert Leon Grosjean, 30, Belgian banker's son; at the home of her brother-in-law, Senator Millard E. Tydings; in Havre de Grace...