Word: knighthood
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...Hugh Casson, 42, who made his name (and his knighthood) by supervising the architectural preparations for the 1951 Festival of Britain, is in charge of decorating London's Westminster section for Queen Elizabeth's coronation. A solemn-looking man, he has taken lighthearted femininity as his motif. "After all," says he, "it will be a woman's day." Reproduced on the opposite page are some of the working sketches which he and his associates have prepared...
Claret & Crystal. War's end brought Templer full generalship, knighthood, and elevation to the Imperial General Staff. But his proudest preferment is his colonelcy of the Royal Irish Fusiliers...
...Norfolk, in charge of arrangements for Queen Elizabeth's coronation. At previous coronations, it was mandatory for peers attending the ceremony to wear crimson robes trimmed with ermine. This time, peers not taking direct part in the ceremonies may wear merely the mantle of an order of knighthood over formal evening dress (knee breeches optional). The wives of peers (below the rank of countess) may also come in ordinary evening dresses...
...always to invite them. Walpole, it might be supposed, had every reason to be cocky and self-confident. He belonged to one of Britain's best-known families. His 50-odd books (Fortitude, The Dark Forest, Rogue Berries) brought him fame, Rolls-Royces, a flat in Piccadilly, a knighthood, a superb collection of paintings, a library of first editions and valuable manuscripts. He received compliments even from Queen Mary and T. S. Eliot. And yet he never felt safe; he was never sure that he was even a good writer, let alone a great...
...Williams as Ivanhoe's faithful Squire Wamba, Finlay Currie as Ivanhoe's father Cedric, Felix Aylmer as the patriarchal Isaac of York, father of Rebecca, and a whole host of Normans and Saxons, knights and squires, lords and ladies and kings and commoners from the days when knighthood was in flower...