Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John North Willys (Willys-Knight, Stearns-Knighf, Whippet) introduced his daughter Virginia to society with a very large Manhattan ball...
Cadillac Locomobile Stearns-Knight...
Durant Oakland Willys-Knight...
However, when the late Sir Leslie Stephen started the English Dictionary of National Biography, he received encouraging letters from his friends Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Henry James; later he was made Knight Commander of the Bath...
Nobody would have believed that Davey "play-acted" a gallant knight outnumbered and surrounded by ruffians, but Sophie of the flaming red pigtails had caught him at it, and all her life she tried to reconcile that adventurous romantic spirit with the David, right hand man at the bank, David, beloved servant of the community, David, matter-of-course slave to his relatives. "Perhaps Davey will see his way clear to ..." send a bespectacled niece to finishing school, house a carping old-maid cousin, finance the whims and mistresses of a charming but debauched artist brother. Sophie married Davey...