Word: knight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most socialite of the Curtis children is his daughter Leona, wife of Webster Knight, Providence banker and onetime textile manufacturer. The elder Knight child is named for his grandfather. In the summer the Vice President has visited the Knights at their home near Newport, has been feted royally by local dowagers...
Patrick went to Ireland last week in the person of His Royal Highness Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Prince of Wales, Knight of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick...
...Rufus Isaacs became Solicitor General and a knight. A few months later he was Attorney General (Sir John Simon was his subordinate). In 1913 he became Lord Chief Justice, the next year a baron. Between those years he had been a lieutenant of David Lloyd George, helped to engineer the House of Lords reform, survived the scandal that threatened to end his career. As Attorney General he approved a contract whereby British Marconi Co. was permitted to construct a chain of wireless stations throughout the Empire. Before the contract was drawn he had bought 10,000 shares in American Marconi...
...McCook, Neb. (pop. 6,688) Governor Roosevelt greeted Republican Senator William Norris as "the very perfect gentle knight of American progressive ideals." Declared the Democratic nominee: "Senator Norris, I go along with you because you follow in their footsteps? 'radical' like Jefferson, 'demagog' like Jackson, 'idealist' like Lincoln, 'wild' like Theodore Roosevelt, 'theorist' like Wilson." Replied Nebraska's Senior Senator: "What this country needs is another Roosevelt in the White House...
Most of the children tested regard the survey with interest, welcoming it also as an opportunity to escape from arithmetic class. According to knight the main cause of behavior troubles is asking the child to do something he is not able or is not interested...