Word: knightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Knight Lane Jr., California lawyer, World War flyer, son of Wilson's Secretary of the Interior...
...such as few commanders have rated. After the fall of Belgrade, when the army was being demobilized, Eugene rode quietly away in his dusty brown coat. Behind him his veterans raised a spontaneous ditty which soon all Austria was singing: "Prinz Eugen der edle Ritter . . ." ("Prince Eugene the noble Knight"). His career had been a success; he had shown the world. But he got no rest on his hard-won laurels. He was over 70 when for the last time he led an army against the French. Outnumbered four to one, he maneuvered skilfully, fought no decisive action. Tired almost...
...Frank Finley Merriam had stayed in Iowa where he was born 68 years ago he would have been spared a lot of trouble last week. He taught school, published a newspaper, gravitated from the Midwest to Long Beach. Calif., became a bank president, a realtor, a Knight of Pythias, a politician, and six weeks ago upon the death of James Rolph Jr., Governor of California just in time to face the best brand of California dynamite?a strike...
...ditch and he arrived late. When he entered the Royal Box, the King, without a single detective to watch him while he watched the race, congratulated him on not being hurt, raised his glasses to follow the parade to the post. At the start. Lord Dewar's Medieval Knight got the lead, held it for a mile. The Maharajah of Rajpipla who bought Windsor Lad as a yearling for ?1.300 and who had made Derby Day a holiday on his estate at Old Windsor, watched his horse and smiled. At the head of the stretch, the crowd saw three...
...kings, and emperors of assorted nationalities to beg orders for his guns. By the time of his death he was an intimate of Wilhelm I, 1870 conquerer of France. He was also an officer of the French Legion of Honor (one of Napoleon III's earlier generosities) and a Knight of the Russian Order of Peter the Great...