Word: knight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Opera and White Hell of Pitz Palu, was directing two versions, one in French, the other in English. In both versions Russian Basso Feodor Chaliapin was playing and singing the Caballero de la Triste Figura. He was getting $200,000. To look more like the lank old knight he had dieted and exercised to reduce his barrel figure. Spectators on location noted that the fastidious singer-actor Flitted daily the ribby old horse playing his steed Rosinante (TIME...
Meanwhile Death still dogged the Morro Castle's wake. In Shrewsbury, Mass. last week died Ethel I. Knight Celatka, 21, of a weakened heart supposedly caused by 14 hours' exposure in the water after she and her sister jumped from the burning Ward liner last September and swam ashore each with a child in tow. (Total deaths: 128.) Off Asbury Park last week, wreckers salvaging the vessel reported that the charred hulk was "wrinkling," the whole ship was cracking...
Henry Goddard Leach, 54, A. B. A. M. Ph. D., Commander of the North Star (Sweden), Knight of St. Olav (Norway), Knight of Falcon (Iceland), and president of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, read over what he had written for the next issue of his Forum and found it good. It would make a whacking lead editorial...
...Dora Black, mother of his son, Bertrand Russell thought he had found a congenial spirit. She was a handsome, vigorous, earthy girl, daughter of a knight and lately down from Cambridge with highest honors. He married her, he explained, not because he thought it was his social duty but because he wanted to legitimatize his son to succeed to the Russell earldom...
...hole after the War and he it was who managed to pay a 5% dividend last year when most of the world's hotels were lucky to pay taxes. Now 61, Hotelman Campione is one of the few holders of the order of the Cavaliére del Lavoro (Knight of Labor), awarded by the Crown to self-made Italians...