Word: knightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles the game in Europe strongly impressed Canadian Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King last week with a desire to prevent Canada from being blamed in any case for starting a new World War. The proposal to add oil to the Sanctions brew was not made by "The White Knight of Geneva," handsome young British League of Nations Minister Captain Anthony Eden, nor by his Government. With the seasoned diplomat's flair for keeping his own fingers out of the broth, Captain Eden went around to the League's International Labor Office and exerted his charm on that semi...
Inquisitive readers who searched From 'Prentice to Patron found 6-year-old Printer Thomas' broadside to be an antique, circuitous poem which told how a Lawyer had been produced by a series of cohabitations between such persons as a Knight, a Friar, a Nun, a Lady...
CHINA'S MILLIONS - Anna Louise Strong-Knight ($2.50). Revised edition of a graphic, eye-witness account of Chinese Revolution of 1927, carrying the record to 1935, incorporating new matena on the Chinese Soviets, the Japanese advance into Manchuria, developments of the Kuomintang...
...first vote goes to the Snore Professor who consistently left us weak and strangling. Jack Benny himself does well with few good lines, and June Knight, now of "Jubilee," is decorative when not called upon...
...Buckingham Palace that "Mr." Buchan would make a fine Governor-General (part of Canada's reason being that, after 14 peers, the Dominion wanted a commoner), His Majesty proved so oversold on the nomination that he not only made Commoner Buchan his Governor-General but enthusiastically dubbed him Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael & St. George, then capped this knighthood and vexed many Canadians by raising him to the peerage as Baron Tweedsmuir (TIME...