Word: knightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MONEY WRITES!-Upton Sinclair-A. & C. Boni ($2.50). Once again fuming, foaming Upton Sinclair girds himself beyond all reason, leaps on his lame but willing steed, and (like Stephen Leacock's famed knight) rides off in all directions. According to Upton, the successful writers of today write either consciously or unconsciously for the benefit of nasty Wall Street. Most of Money Writes! is devoted to a mildly interesting, not very convincing attempt to prove this theory. One by one Joseph Herges-heimer, Gertrude Atherton, et al., are pointed at with the finger of scorn and it is all pretty...
...knight from Rome, who has opened an office in Manhattan, sent his professional card to possible clients...
...organizing public utilities and on the Stock Exchange; the son, with his brother Nicholas F., increased the family fortune. He supported many charities, chiefly Catholic; once he sold all his race horses and gave the proceeds away. For his benefactions Pope Pius XI made him a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory and a private chamberlain of the Cape and Sword; last December King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy made him Knight Commander of the Crown of Italy...
...Knight Jr., Yale '26: "Since when is a co-op a coop, and a Yard...
There are 40 Royal Academicians - . the number fixed by George III when he granted them the "Instrument" of foundation. The following year a class of Associates was formed, and is now composed of an indefinite number of members with a minimum of 30. To this class Laura Knight belongs. Associates are elected by vote of both Academicians and Asso ciates, having been proposed and seconded by one of the former. They have all rights and privileges except an active part in the Academy ad ministration...