Word: knighthood
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...zest and flavor to a man's name. Italy's House of Savoy doled out titular rank in the Order of the Crown of Italy to almost half a million Italians. A janitor with 30 years' service-in a government ministry was virtually assured of a knighthood, and the right to be addressed as cavaliere...
Italy's postwar constitution neither approved nor forbade titles. Last December, however, the government introduced a bill instituting a new Order of Knighthood for Merit under the Italian Republic. "Ridiculous and insignificant," scoffed 82-year-old ex-Premier Francesco Nitti when the bill reached the Senate floor last week; but Nitti, it was pointed out, could afford to be disapproving-he already had 43 orders and decorations. The bill passed two-to-one in favor of more titles...
Died. Sir Herbert Atkinson Barker, 81, self-styled "manipulative surgeon" whose skill in repairing dislocated joints and stiff knees with his fingers brought him fame, fortune, knighthood and-after the orthodox had long spurned him as a degreeless bonesetter-professional recognition; in Lancaster, England...
...Princess of Wales's fund for the poor of London. "It was the most important single act in his whole life," for when Lipton permitted the release of his name, he immediately became red-hot news on both sides of the Atlantic, won a knighthood from Victoria, and made a friend of Heir Apparent Prince Edward. With one shrewdly timed piece of generosity, "the millionaire who two years before was dining every night at home had become a part of international society...
...make matters worse, his dead father, famed Sir Dagobert, had always been a very model of knighthood, had throttled a hawk at the age of two, killed a wild boar at six. Willie wasn't impressed by such accounts, but his mother, the Dame de Littlehampton, wouldn't let him forget them; she was the kind of lady who expected her only son to make his mark on the armor and the life expectancy of his foes. When she hustled poor, terrified Willie off to join King Richard's crusade in the Holy Land, militant Christianity enlisted...