Word: knighthood
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...Winston Churchill, then Under Secretary in the Colonial Office. Eddie knew all Britain's greats and near-greats, dashed from dinner to dinner drumming the names of his favorite artists into their ears. He followed Churchill to the Board of Trade, finally to the Admiralty, eventually won a knighthood in 1937 for his services...
...Knighthood That Failed. The sense of estrangement from Dibdin did not last long. Dibdin's daughter Margaret had beauty, Dibdin had money, and, perhaps best of all, Mrs. Dibdin had aristocratic blood. On his honeymoon Albert was converted, after "some excesses of which he was proud," from a great amorist to a great husband. "Woods." he told himself, "is at the height of his powers"; and rushed back to his laboratory to become a great scientist...
Nevertheless, Albert stood to get a knighthood out of it-if only he had been able to control that atavistic tendency to be just plain human. At a party one day he confronted a particularly loud and repulsive woman who was making drunken claims that Hitler was right about...
Doug, always an expert swashbuckler on the silver screen, earned the British D.S.C. as the only U.S. officer to command a flotilla of raiding craft for Mountbatten's Commandos, a chestful of other medals for service in seven major campaigns, and an honorary Knighthood in the Order of the British Empire for "furthering Anglo-American amity." When he got his knighthood, his children prepared him a surprise-a leather case engraved "Sir Douglas Fairbanks." The new knight took it in stride when he learned that foreigners are not permitted to bear the prefix "Sir." "Oh, never mind about titles...
Ivanhoe (M-G-M). Sir Walter Scott's novel of the days when knighthood was in flower; with Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine (TIME...