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Word: knightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stripped of Ceremony. In Virginia Beach, Va., tourists stopping at the Knight's Inn found a note on the desk register: "Too hot! Just take any empty room and go to the beach. I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...unexpected from station KCOP-TV, which last year won national attention for its freewheeling program of comment by Pianist Oscar Levant (TIME, May 5, 1958). This week the station popped another big-name surprise on viewers. KCOP-TV's newest star: California's sometime Governor Goodwin J. Knight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Goodie's Goodies | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...Goodie Knight's new job as newscaster (five minutes a day, five days a week) marks his first sustained public appearance since he lost out in his bid for the U.S. Senate last fall. Enforced leisure-and particularly, enforced silence-bore heavily on a man who, in top form, could reel off 250 speeches a month. Knight sunned awhile at Palm Springs, caught up on years of neglected reading ("I had never read Whittaker Chambers' book,*and I found it fascinating"), rented a Los Angeles apartment and bought into an insurance firm. When KCOP-TV proposed the commentator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Goodie's Goodies | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...nearly twice as long). If I were a better critic I might perhaps be able to verbalize this power. Those who want the most keen, profound, and sometimes conflicting discussions of this play (and the other great tragedies) should turn to the writings of A.C. Bradley and G. Wilson Knight...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Macbeth | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

Dame Laura has seen plenty in her 81 years-and has put it all down with faithful brush and oil. As a teen-age orphan, Laura Knight took over her mother's art classes in Nottingham, blackening her toes so that the holes in her shoes would go unnoticed. At 25, she was living in Staithes, a fishing village on the Yorkshire coast, painting the grinding poverty and bold courage of North Sea fisherfolk. In her thirties and forties she was off traveling with the circus, camping with gypsies, setting up easels in the ring at Blackfriars, hanging over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Grand Dame | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

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