Word: knight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case of Hot-cha! the setting is contemporary Mexico. The juvenile is Charles ("Buddy") Rogers of Olathe, Kan., who plays indifferently on several musical instruments and was until lately his country's cinematic Boy Friend. The ingénue is a tall blond named June Knight. Bert Lahr, whose large following is convulsed by his funny faces and mispronunciations, is the comedian and Lynne Overman (Dancing Partners) is more or less his foil. The siren is a dark mite with a great big smile, Cinemactress Lupe Velez. Her shapely shoulders are burdened with that part of the show which Mr. Lahr...
...MacDougall (see p. 55), Ada E. Foote Wrigley (no kin) will not take over active management of her husband's affairs. She does not need to. Active head of William Wrigley Jr. Co. (gum), to the board of which she will not be elected, is her son President Philip Knight Wrigley, 38. His chief business ability is in advertising ; outside of the office his consuming interests are in mechanics, electricity, photography. He repairs his three Packards and three Duesenbergs by himself, likewise tinkers his radios. Wrigley's P. Ks. were named for him and not because of the slogan: "Packed...
...moment when the spirit should move them. Then to each there came that inner voice, whispering to men of Dunster, "blue and gold," murmuring to sons of Winthrop "red and white." The colors conceived that day were brought forth only a few days ago by a haberdasher. Himself a knight of the garter, and true kin of the man who created Father's Day to sell more ties, he invoked the spirit of Dunster devotion, of Leverett loyalty, to ring up his cash-register. He had samples made, he set silk-mills a spinning with a three hundred dollar check...
...Tweedledum who were in continual fisticuffs over a rattle. People grew suddenly incredibly tall or shrunk away until they prit near weren't there at all. It was all most confusing and bewildering, but such great fun. There is something, quite delightful about the fearful rage of a white knight and the incomprehensible conversation of a sleepy doormouse...
...insufficiently lovely. Immensely popular with his patrons, Artist de Laszlo is somewhat less admired by artists, who doubtless envy him his income. He can console himself for the slights of his confreres by reflecting on the fact that he is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor; Knight of the Austro-Hungarian Order of the Iron Crown; Chevalier of the Order of Pius IX; Commander of the Order of Jesus Christ of Portugal; Commander of , the Royal Spanish Order of Isabella La Catholica; Commander of the Hohenzollern House Order; Commander of the Royal Greek Saviour Order; Commander of the (Swedish...