Word: knighthood
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Honored. With knighthood in the French Legion of Honor: Daniel Guggen- heim, for the international services of his Fund for the Promotion of Aviation and for his gift of a library to the French Aero Club...
...after the thanksgiving King-Emperor George V made Paul's Dean ; Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order The Gloomy One intimated that he does not choose to be called or addressed hereafter as "Sir William"-though he gratefully accepted the knighthood...
Sirs: Following my notification from Hon. Pasquale De Cioco, Royal Vice Consul of Italy, that H. M. Vittorio Emanuele had conferred upon the writer of this the Order of Knighthood in the Order of the Crown of Italy for his paintings of Rome, and being thereby (and not perhaps, unnaturally) somewhat overcome, I ventured to share the news with TIME. That you should ignore the matter "in toto" is perhaps not surprising, and it is, of course, quite within your rights, and your admirable magazine is, in the writer's estimation, none the worse for the omission. GEORGE WHARTON...
...Bestowed Knighthood in the Most Noble Order of the Garter (the highest honor in the gift of the Crown) upon His Majesty's close and sportsmanly friend, Col. Hugh Cecil Lowther, 71, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, who is also Viscount and Baron Lowther, Lord Lieutenant and Gustos Rotulonim* of Cumberland, Colonel of the Westmorland and Cumberland Imperial Yeomanry. Hereditary Admiral of the Coasts of Cumberland and Westmorland, and late Master of the smart Cottesmore Hounds...
...smiling Scotch minstrel, turned autobiographer, tells of coal-mining, at eleven, to knighthood...