Word: knightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifty-eight years ago a girl child was born in Ware, Mass., and christened Bertha Ethel. Her father was Charles Knight and her mother Cordelia Cutter Knight (the Cutter family came to Massachusetts in 1630). Little Bertha's brother is named Austin M. He is now a retired admiral. Her sister, Jessie L., grew up and married a widower named David Starr Jordan and is now wife of the chancellor emeritus of Leland Stanford Jr. University. Among the girls who lived in her little town was Rose Casey, now Mrs. Hayes, who is a member of the city council...
...AutoPneumatic Action Co. (Welte-Mignon pianos); even Countess Starzynska's pearl-festooned pose in a Patou gown; even the fact that Rigaud perfume was used to scent the house at Consuelo Vanderbilt's wedding; even Mrs. Oliver Harriman's frosty elegance of face and phrase in the Willys-Knight reminders; even Prince Luis de Bourbon's witty crack in the new and aristocratic American Tobacco Co. series: "When do you feel like a prince? Smoking a Melachrino...
...many fond and kind parents, that I am especially anxious you should not sanction or encourage them. "Since I began this I have heard of the great wish entertained that you should receive the Order of St. Patrick and that you should be installed in Dublin as a Knight. I shall have much pleasure in giving you the order, and that your going over to Dublin to be installed there should be the occasion for your going there, and not the races, which should only come in as an incident. ..." Edward's Reply: "My dear Mama: Many thanks...
...were stated to the public that the only object of my visit to Ireland was on account of the races. It was very kind of you to give me the Order of St. Patrick, which I am only too happy to receive and be installed as a Knight in the Cathedral, as proposed...
...Zaharoff achieved a reputation for being almost impervious to feminine charm. Although he entertained lavishly, his interest appeared to center wholly in munitions. He maintained a home in almost every European capital, merely as a convenience, since he traveled incessantly. In 1918 George V, R. I., created him a Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, "for war services." In 1921 the still grateful British Government advanced him to the Grand Cross of the Bath, "for war services." Still he remained a bachelor...