Word: knight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While 3000 children in Beverly, Revere, and Lynn, attend school under typical New England conditions, a group of University psychological experts, headed by Dr. Walter Dearborn, professor of Education, has been studying their menial and physical growth, tabulating statistics, and rechecking findings with meticulous care according to J. B. Knight, administrator of the psycho-educational survey...
...wild mountain land above Nice last week there were strange goings-on. A woeful old knight was seen riding a ribby white horse as seedy as himself. He encountered a band of brigands, attacked them singlehanded. He mistook the sails of a windmill for threatening giants, charged into them to his own near- destruction. After him on muleback plodded a faithful red-faced squire, but with all his remonstrating he had no more control over his crack-brained sire than did the cinemen trying to film the proceedings. The red-faced squire was old George Robey, famed British comedian, playing...
United Press's Mary Knight dressed herself as a man, boasted afterward that she was the only woman to see Dr. Gorgulov lose his head. She told how Gorgulov, his hands and feet heavily manacled, hobbled forward; how the back of the prisoner's neck was shaved "to better expose his flesh to the sharp knife of 'the widow' [guillotine]." Then ''like a flash the neck piece clamped Gorgulov into position and, before he could gasp, the knife, well weighted, fell nine feet. . . . There was no autopsy...
...luncheon, the Vice President received the news on the north steps of the State capitol. That location was chosen for economy's sake, as no expensive awning was needed to shade the notifiers. With the Vice President were his sister, Mrs. Dolly Gann; his daughter, Mrs. Leona Knight; his rambunctious son Harry. On the lawn were 5,000 spectators. Nominee Curtis made a speech. It was broadcast over 48 stations but omitted from New York and Chicago...
...situation was unfortunate but usual. Where Mrs. Birdsong deviated from the human to the holy was in refusing to do anything about it except by straining more & more to be George's ideal. Never natural when George was around, she never reproached him, always smiled, always pretended he was knight to her lady. Both of them had a terrible time but pretended to each other that everything was perfect. When little Jenny Blair, daughter of her old friend the General, began to grow up and be attractive to George, he manfully resisted temptation as long as he could. Jenny Blair...