Word: knighthood
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...Thomas got his knighthood following his services to the Empire when, as an unofficial good-will ambassador to Italy during World War I, he helped keep wavering Italian politicians firmly on the side of the Allies. He still likes to call himself one of Britain's leading promoters of international friendship. But dull-witted people are forever taking umbrage at his peculiar expressions of amity. He told the Philharmonic Orchestra Association of Southern California that America's primary cultural asset was the English language-which was gradually being destroyed through misuse. Said an Association member next...
Five decades had brought to it almost every great theater figure from Ellen Terry to Helen Hayes. On its stage Sarah Bernhardt played in Camille, Olga Nethersole in Carmen, Mrs. Fiske in A Doll's House, Julia Marlowe in When Knighthood Was in Flower, William Gillette in Sherlock Holmes, Katharine Cornell in The Barretts of Wimpole Street...
...Gundicar and Gunderic, who, coming from Germany, carved a kingdom for themselves in the bosom of degenerate Gaul. In the summer he pruned his grapevines, hunted Germanic relics on his land, and penned iambic attacks on the Latin descendants of those Gauls who finally crushed the flower of Burgundian knighthood...
...after being ordered into, then out of Belgium, the Second Corps was swung south of its prepared positions in a brief effort to close the fatal Peronne-Bapaume gap. Then it was ordered to Dunkirk, where Sir Alan's rear-guard action and evacuation won him his knighthood...
...when one William Ewert Berry, publisher of a modest group of British journals, came out with a weekly picture magazine: War Illustrated. Before the War ended and the Illustrated died, it had a circulation of 750,000 (record for its day) made Berry rich and helped earn him a knighthood. Editor was husky 43-year-old John Hammerton...