Word: knight
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Austen Chamberlain, the only Knight of the Garter to win the Nobel Peace Prize (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926) and the only K. G. who is not a peer, sat with the crimson-&-blue-robed Knights who boast themselves "the oldest order of knighthood in the world...
...every knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter there is a banner hanging and a plaque screwed up in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. After nine years of restoration, at a cost of more than $1.000.000 (much of it supplied by U. S. Anglophiles), this No. i shrine of British chivalry was re-opened last week in the presence of George V and The Lady of the Garter (Queen Mary...
James Ramsay MacDonald, though not a K. G., sat, by right of his Prime Ministry, in a stall next to that once occupied by onetime Knight Wilhelm II of Germany. Keen eyes observed that during the $1,000.000 restoration the banner of the All Highest War Lord was indeed removed, but his plaque remains, still tightly screwed in place...
Outside Congress: He lives at the Alban Towers apartments when in Washington, works long hours at his office, where he likes to put his feet on his desk, drawl out his political discouragement at men and affairs. Driving his Willys-Knight motorcar is a diversion. Not interested in Society or socialite sport he goes to bed regularly at 10 p.m., sees his principal friends-Senators Borah, Johnson, Brookhart, LaFollette-mostly at the Capitol. He likes to listen to radio reports of baseball games, to smoke numerous cigars...
...work, and a few to Harvard," declared, one essayist. "When these few get to Cambridge they spend most of their time fighting for 'dear old Alma Martyr, taking Physics and studying objects that can be described as 'completely globular in every dimension,' and reading scenes from Shakespeare's 'Twelfth-Knight'" ... or so the section men might be led to believe...