Word: knight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that the Dragoons have been chosen to escort King George & Queen Elizabeth on their visit to Canada next year gave them an added glitter. To the music of Scottish folk songs (Bonnie Dundee, The Campbells Are Coming) and Irish jigs (Rory O' More, Donny Brook Boy), the knight-like Dragoons and their sturdy mounts cut centaurian capers with the precision of the Radio City Music Hall's famed Rockettes. For their grand finale they charged the length of the ring. Their director, Major D. A. Grant, explained that training the horses to keep time with the music...
...similar in technique to work done by scientists on guinea pigs today. Said Sir Edward: "Frederick the Second. Emperor of the Romans, King of Sicily and Jerusalem, known as Stupor Mundi, the Wonder of the World, A. D. 1192-1250. Of him it is recorded that he took two knights and gave them identical meals. One of these knights he then sent out hunting and the other he ordered to bed. Several hours later he killed both and examined the contents of their alimentary canals. He found that digestion had proceeded further in the stomach of the sleeping knight...
...Knights of Song (by Glendon Allvine; produced by Laurence Schwab) is a musical show about the most famous of musical showmen, Gilbert & Sullivan. Besides providing a chance to go to town with their music, a play about them has comic and dramatic opportunities: Sullivan's long love affair with married, U. S.-born Cynthia Bradley; the violent wrangling between the two collaborators, who could not work peaceably together nor successfully apart; Queen Victoria's affection for genial, diplomatic Sullivan (John Moore), whom she knighted in 1883; her aversion to jealous, crusty Gilbert (Nigel Bruce), whom it was left...
...municipal airport for the annual aviation day sponsored by the Scripps-Howard Times-Press. The program was a success in spite of one embarrassing circumstance: there was no Times-Press. In its edition that morning, the Times-Press announced that it had been acquired by its competitor, John S. Knight's rich and dowdy Beacon-Journal. Akron, a lusty industrial centre of 255,000 population, was left with one daily paper...
Thus The Netherlands-which has $1,000,000,000 invested in the U. S., second only to Great Britain-became fourth biggest U. S. customer (after Great Britain, Canada, Japan). Instrumental in arranging the trade pact was a close-cropped Knight of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer Pieter Jacob Six, owner of the world's greatest collection of Rembrandts, four of them portraits of members of his own family. Jonkheer Six likes to point out that both the U. S. and Holland are creditor nations, that their trade needs complement each other. Last January he and Dr. E. H. von Baumhauer...