Word: knightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Woodrow Wilson is one of the greatest men the world has ever produced. He was a great President. . . . His high place in history is secure and the adulation and mouthings of weaklings and demagogues can add nothing to or detract nothing from it."?Senator John Knight Shields of Tennessee, who (with only two other Democrats ?) voted against the League of Nations and the Versailles Treaty in the Senate...
Monna Vanna. The Middle Ages, the ages of picturesqueness, make good movie copy. So Maeterlinck's play of the days of the warring Italian city-states has all the advantages of armor, battle and the full trappings of romance. Lee Perry plays the beautiful Monna Vanna to a knight's taste and all that a curious, if bloodthirsty, audience could ask in addition would be more scenes of the heat of battle...
...John Knight Shields, for ten years a United States Senator and for 65 years a Democrat, exclaimed in an interview apropos of the settling of the anthracite coal strike: "If this is a fair sample of President Coolidge's adjustment of strikes and labor troubles in the interests of the people of the United States, I hope he will not make any further efforts in that direction...
...public G. Spencer Pryce's impressive studies of the life of the poor and the working classes. But he used with equal tolerance the irrepressible creations of Tony Sarg, MacDonald Gill, E. A. Cox, humorists; and the beautiful nature studies of Fred Taylor, F. Gregory Brown, E. Mc-Knight Kauffer, inviting the weary cityman to rural shires. Some of these men, now recognized as the foremost poster artists in England, got their first big chance on the Underground. The Underground literally set the nation's standards of poster publicity during the War, refusing to display the Government...
...story of the waters at Bagnoles originated many centuries ago. A knight whose sole mundane possession was an old war charger once entered the woods at Bagnoles to die. His horse discovered the pool and was rejuvenated. With the customary antics he led his master to the pool of youth and shortly after man and beast emerged from the wood to seek fame and fortune...