Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Layamon, Chretien de Troyes, Sir Thomas Malory, Sir Walter Scott, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and now Alan Jay Lerner. In Camelot, he necessarily left out some of the legend's great characters: Sir Kay the Seneschal, Tristram and Isolde, Elaine the lily-maid of Astolat, even Sir Galahad, the squarest knight at the Round Table...
...Word of the Clerk. But there were still no clues to the "killer" or the motive. Then the police traced Mrs. Knight's former husband to a town in Sussex. He had not seen his wife in 24 years, he said, but grumbled that nevertheless he was still paying her ?2 ($5.60) a week in support money via the clerk of the magistrates' court in Rhyl. Quite right, confirmed the clerk; since 1940 he had handled $5,877 on her behalf. But, he added, for many years the person who had come to pick...
...trial for her life last week, shriveled Sarah Harvey sat impassively beside her nurse, collapsing into sobs only when her son took the stand. But she stuck to her story that Mrs. Knight had been taken suddenly ill one night and died in agony before she could summon a doctor. In panic, said Mrs. Harvey, she had dragged the corpse into the closet; she had collected the money only because she feared she would be accused of murder if the death were discovered. The prosecution's case hung like a thread on the ligature around the mummy...
Stretching a Point. For five hours Mrs. Harvey's attorney, huge (238 Ibs.) Andrew Rankin, 36, hammered at the calm, moderate Dr. Evans. Suppose, he asked, that the stocking found around Mrs. Knight's throat had not been stretched. Would the cause of death be certain? "No," replied the scientist. Then Rankin moved in on Witness Clift, the government biologist who had rashly admitted that he was an "expert on stocking strangulation cases." "Did you ever ask if that stocking had been stretched?" he thundered. With a sigh. Dr. Clift replied that he had not. Had the stocking...
...fraud charge to be dealt with. "It is quite impossible to shut one's eyes to the fact that during the whole intervening period of those charges, you have been obtaining ?2 week by week," the judge said sternly to Mrs. Harvey. "In effect you have swindled Mr. Knight of something like ?2,000 . . . You will go to prison for 15 months...