Word: knighthood
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...born football coach killed last fortnight in an airplane crash (TIME, April 6); by King Haakon VII of Norway, who sent Olaf Bernts, Norwegian consul in Chicago as his personal representative at the Rockne funeral in South Bend, Ind., and who made known that he would confer posthumous Norwegian knighthood upon Mr. Rockne within six months...
Retired, "The Most Permanent Lord Mayor of London," Sir William Jameson Soulsby, 79, for the past 56 years private secretary to a total of 55 London Lord Mayors. Sir William accepted a knighthood from his friend King Edward VII, begged and received permission to decline a baronetcy recently offered him by George...
...Constitution forbids U. S. officeholders accepting foreign titles. But to permit General Pershing a knighthood by George V, Congress passed an act allowing all U. S. warriors to accept swank titles of Allied Powers...
...Also named for knighthood, but in another order, that of the Holy Sepulchre, were 13 other U. S. citizens last week, constituting the first national council of the Order to be formed in the U. S. Among reputed founders is Godfrey de Bouillon, a leader in the first crusade which wrested (1099) Jerusalem from the "Infidels." The 13 candidates prepared to kneel in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, be given spurs and sword, draw sword and be tapped on the shoulder with it, in true medieval fashion. Most socialite of the thirteen knights: Kenneth O'Brien...
...Austen Chamberlain, the only Knight of the Garter to win the Nobel Peace Prize (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926) and the only K. G. who is not a peer, sat with the crimson-&-blue-robed Knights who boast themselves "the oldest order of knighthood in the world...