Word: knighthoods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
Soon afterward the mantle of knighthood descended, emphasizing Sir Henry's complete technical severance from his U. S. Fatherland...
...Continued from p. 2) William Cooper Procter, soap maker, who, like his grandfather and father before him, was made a life member of the Cincinnati Grand Chamber of Commerce. TIME likened this event to a "sort of civic knighthood" and concluded: "Knighthood in 1928 concerned science and philanthropy* more; soap, less." Quite the opposite of disparagement was intended...