Word: knighthoods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began his political career as Liberal M. P. for Reading; and under Premier Asquith (now Lord Oxford), became first Solicitor General with a knighthood, then Attorney General with a seat in the Cabinet-the first Attorney General to be so honored...
...voice of Army philosophy. His works on how to be a soldier were the classic prose of reveille. They explained how one should get up in the morning and not hate it: "We proudly trace the traditions of our service directly back to the Order of Knighthood, which for centuries furnished the brain and spirit and sinew to European armies . . . to succor the weak and to maintain the right amidst the horrors of the Dark Ages . . . humbleness in victory, stoicism in hardship, patience in defeat . . . 'a gentleman and a soldier.' " His idol is not Abraham Lincoln, who committed the gauchcrie...
Knights. The National Child Welfare Association has a unique plan for improving bad boys. "We will make knights of them," it decided, thereupon founded the "Knighthood of Youth" (or "The Order of Character"). These knights do not curse and hold wassail; they do not devote themselves to the performance of high-flown absurdities in the interests of their ladies, brawl with one another with dangerous implements; there is no reveling about any table, round or otherwise; no spurring of jaded stallions; no wearing of women's garters on the cap. On the contrary, these are knights in name only. They...
...good the War did is to show that a nation, not well armed, is powerless, and that such a nation gets no help from anybody." Maximilian Harden, German editor, intractable enemy of the Hohen- zollerns: "The certainty that war has lost its last glowing charm of romantic chivalry or knighthood, that it has lost the manly nobility of a fight to be decided by personal valor, and has become an endless war of industrial masses of matter and physical and chemical devils' work...
...saving grace of humor. The writer lists the best pictures within the period covered by his book, as follows : Nanook of the North, Grandma's Boy, Blood and Sand, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Eternal Flame, Shadows, Oliver Twist, Robin Hood, Peg o' My Heart, When Knighthood Was in Flower, Driven, The Pilgrim, Down to the Sea in Ships, The Covered Wagon, Hollywood, Merry-Go-Round. These Mr. Sherwood adduces to show that the film industry can produce works of art. To each he gives a compact critical survey, a short recital of the plot and a description...