Word: knighting
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Died. Goodwin J. Knight, 73, Republican Governor of California from 1953 to 1958, and power in state politics; of pneumonia; in Inglewood, Calif. An energetic campaigner, "Goodie" Knight served two terms as Earl Warren's Lieutenant Governor, then succeeded him in office and made his own mark with the voters, winning by a landslide in 1954. Long at odds with the state's conservative wing, Knight blamed Richard Nixon for his defeat in the 1958 senatorial election, and in 1962 made it an open fight in the gubernatorial primary−which went to Nixon...
...author of All on a Summer's Night went on to offer some puckish notions as to how an American aristocracy might be titled. First minister in the court of King Richard would be Spiro, Duke of Maryland; then would come such lesser dignitaries as Knight of the Garter Henry Kissinger and Companion of Honor Bebe Rebozo. In the Midwest, it would be Earl Humphrey of Minnesota. And in the Southwest, the vast estates of Earl Pedernales and Lady Pedernales-"Not," Edelman cautioned, "Lady Lady Bird...
...Shakespeare's Henry IV. After some lusty drinking and a prolonged period onstage, Burton wet his chain mail. He then played a duel scene with Sir Michael Redgrave, as Hotspur, and broke his sword. Forced to win the duel without a blade, he hoisted the bulky knight to his shoulder and tossed him across the stage. "Dear boy," said Sir Michael backstage, "I thought you were sweating rather more than usual...
...copped-out, cats, caps, kicked, reefer, Johns, juke, ofay, goofed, wing, hip, dig, soul, honkies, splib (spook as in Negro), grass and skag are just a few of the words appearing in black poetry that often have multiple meanings elusive to the white reader. For example, in Etheridge Knight's Poems from Prison, he says...
...Times. Ebert's chatty, erudite reviews -abetted after hours at O'Rourke's by a repertory of trade union songs, trivia recollections and Irish anecdotes, boisterously rendered at a drop of Tullamore Dew-have elevated him to what Saturday Review Film Critic and Friend Arthur Knight calls "a cultural resource of the community...