Word: knight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...direct line to mount the throne as Queen Elizabeth. She was welcomed to the circus last week by a jovial fellow who could easily cut the figure of a wide-mouthed clown, were he not the Empire's principal sporting peer, the 5th Earl of Lonsdale. Knight of the Garter and Hereditary Admiral of the Coasts of Cumberland and Westmorland...
...Mlle Lucette Lameras, 27, who was in Stavisky's room when the shot was fired, so the Sûreté Générale said, made no disclosures, quaffed champagne at the Chamonix police station while being questioned. Sought out in Paris by United Presswoman Mary Knight she extended a heavily bejeweled hand, drawled, "Give me your card. I don't say a word for less than 5,000 francs ($305). I have other bidders. I will let you know shortly. Au revoir." A certain Dr. Jamin of Chamonix complained : "I was the first...
...chipping last week was cautious. George V conferred on Premier Bennett nothing, bestowed a minor knighthood on Chief Justice Joseph Matthias Tellier of King's Bench, Quebec and made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael & St. George out of Chief Justice Lyman Poore Duff of Canada's Supreme Court. To 32 Canadian women he gave the Order of the British Empire for their good and charitable works. Snapped ex-Premier King, now Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition at Ottawa: "An attempt to create in Canada a social order based on titular...
Glaring frequently at Lawyer Leibowitz and intoning his words, Judge Callahan spent nearly two hours explaining to the jury how they could find Patterson guilty. When he had finished Lawyer Leibowitz and Attorney General Thomas Knight, the prosecutor, went up to the bench, whispered hastily in his ear. "Oh yes," said the judge, facing the jury. "I overlooked one thing. If you are not satisfied beyond all reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty as charged, then he ought to be acquitted." Twenty-six hours later came a resounding thump on the brown wooden jury room door. The bailiff...
Hawk-nosed, bemonocled Conservative Sir Austen, Knight of the Garter, then crossed from the Government to the Opposition side of the House, sat down beside Mr. Jones, warmly pressed his hand and sympathized in his trouble...