Word: knightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That's quite jolly," said the Knight looking at Alice. But the Dodo went on as if nothing had happened...
...Frederick, Mo. Reno S. Harp, Supreme Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, recovering from pneumonia, felt better when he was able to announce that President Roosevelt had signed an application to become a Knight of Pythias. The Pythians are trying to get Home Owners Loan Corp. or RFC to aid them in refinancing mortgages on their lodges throughout...
Since he had helped convict Haywood Patterson in 1933 when he was State's Attorney General, Thomas Edmund Knight Jr. had risen to be Lieutenant Governor of Alabama. The defense soon pointed out that the State constitution forbade a man's holding two public jobs for pay. While Thomas Knight "laughed off" this objection, Judge William Callahan breezily overruled a plea that Knight be barred as special prosecutor at Trial No. 4 at Decatur...
...took just seven hours for Prosecutor Knight to restate his case. It did not differ from the one his father, as a State Supreme Court Justice, had previously upheld in vain. Hard-faced Victoria Price who, it was charged, had slept with hoboes in a Chattanooga "jungle" the night before the alleged crime, told for the eighth time in public how Patterson and the other Negroes had chased off her white "boyfriends" and raped her in the freight car-a tale long since repudiated by Ruby Bates, the other alleged victim of the attack. When the State rested...
...summation, the State asked for the death penalty, otherwise "we might have to buckle six-shooters about our waists." "Don't go out and quibble over the evidence," roared the young county prosecutor who was helping Prosecutor Knight. "Say to yourselves: 'We're tired of this job' and put it behind you. Get it done quick and protect the fair womanhood of this great State." The defense was for the protection of womanhood, too, but also asked for "the protection of the innocent...