Word: knight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...producers have not cabined themselves by letter-reverence to the script. They have gone on inventing, adding to the details of the fantasy, just as Mark Twain would have delighted in doing: the knights storming the castle of Queen Morgan Le Fay use submachine guns and ride in Austin cars; an autogiro arrives to rescue King Arthur; the tilt between Sir Boss (Will Rogers) and Sir Sagramor is an nounced in the manner of the modern prize-ring and broadcast by a whiskered radio man who begins McNamically: "Well, here we are at .Camelot. . . ." In this tilt Will Rogers...
...perilous riding, he cancelled a trip to the Grand National Steeplechase (see p. 24). Said he: "I feel that the mere sight of horses going over the jumps would hurt every bone in my body." Also last week, in Paris, France's "Chariot" was decorated with the ribbon of Knight of the French Legion of Honor...
...this power was suddenly switched like a high-voltage current into St. George's some weeks ago, the object being to elect one Sir Ernest Willoughby Petter. This inoffensive knight, the irregular Conservative candidate, was not originally the presslords' mannikin. He entered the lists at St. George's supported by a dignified group of manufacturers who wanted to air the issue of high protective tariffs v. low protective tariff or "safeguarding." Sir Ernest Petter was to advocate high tariffs, and the regular Conservative candidate. Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, husband of beauteous Lady Diana Manners, would of course support "safeguarding...
...Jones, owner of Washington's famed Audley Farms racing stable, honored Idaho's Senator & Mrs. Borah by renaming his Bright Knight-Princess Doreen filly "Mary Borah." The filly's previous name, which Mr. Jones had found pre-empted in the studbook, was Princess Mary...
With the advent of warmer weather the thoughts of the average run of young men turn in the general direction of the tender passion and its inevitable concomitants. Already an acute observer may see an occasional lady leaning over her casement in the hope that a modern knight will pass by in a suave phaeton gayly tirra-lirraing. Whereas the Vagabond does not profess to be more than slightly conversant with such cardiac matters he has heard from vehement, if not avowedly authentic sources that a knowledge of poetry is rarely a hindrance and often a help...