Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which he has given more than $40 million in cash. Then there are Christopher Wren, Debrett, King's Parade, Land's End, Tower of London. They represent England and the dignified 18th century values treasured most by Mellon, who was made an honorary Knight of the British Empire in 1974. Literature, another Mellon love, gallops as Knight's Tale, Winter's Tale, Canterbury Tale and Love for Love; and geography, the places Mellon owns, shows up in horses like the famous Mill Reef, named for a landmark near the Mellon house on Antigua in the West...
Ticketeer (enthusiastic): They are very nice chemises of iron, wet knight...
...Rice Krispies and baked in the shape of a maple leaf, four whips (sent to him when he was Senate whip), a paint-by-number picture of Rin Tin Tin, and an egg laid by a hen on the day a man first walked on the moon. Elizabeth Knight of the historical society, who is attempting to make an inventory of the entire collection, says she has no idea how many items there are or what their value might...
Give coach John Higginson credit for prophesizing about the loss to a strong Scarlet Knight eight by 6:05.7 to 6:12.3. The veteran mentor entered the affair pessimistic about the result but optimistic about what he would glean from watching his charges under...
...most encouraging news was Harvard's awesome showing in the junior varsity contest. The jayvees demolished by ten seconds the same Knight boat that destroyed Penn's jayvees earlier in the campaign...