Word: knighting
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...John S. Knight, LL.D., newspaper publisher...
...times, the jog down the byways of the romantic era seemed not worth the effort. With utter seriousness, Butler's dancers performed the ballet from Meyerbeer's 1831 opera Robert le Diable, a spooky medieval tale that pits a young knight against the seductive forces of the Devil; about the best that can be said for it is that the knight ultimately triumphs. In an attempt to convey the lacquered elegance of a 19th century Paris salon, chamber music soloists performed in a drawing-room setting. They were surrounded on stage by formally attired Indianapolis socialites seated...
...past three weeks, the authoritative London Times has reported the deaths of a countess, a viscountess, a baroness, two lords, two baronets, a knight and the widows of eight knights. It seems possible that these deaths, coupled with widespread student rioting, disaffection with the Westminster government and the bloody battles in Ulster, indicate that at last the British proletariat have begun to throw off the bloodstained shackles of the aristocratic governing clique...
...simply seems to add relish to a high-spirited and persistently amusing evening. The Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur saga of newspapering in the Chicago of the 1920s is the liveliest public relations handout ever issued on the newspaper game. It makes a newspaperman seem like a combination of knight, sleuth, adventurer and liquored-up, hard-bitten prince of the realm - the Fourth Estate seen in the guise of the First Estate...
...friend, Harvard Critic Harry Levin, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Nabokov's first novel written in English, was published. A haunting, accomplished and entirely Nabokovian novel about a man who loses his own identity trying to write the fictional biography of his lost brother, it appeared almost unnoticed. By the time he reached Cornell he had published Bend Sinister (1947), a study of a police state, parts of Speak, Memory, one of the most beautiful autobiographies in English. Yet he was barely known on campus as a man of letters, much less a literary genius...