Word: knightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Black Knight (Warwick; Columbia), starring Alan Ladd and Patricia Medina, and photographed in Technicolor, is reviewed by TIME'S Camelot correspondent...
...this dretched yere hath this our Fayr Demesne been sore aforbled of the hungrie bande that Slounketh out of the Woode called Holly. Nay, the Table Round hath more mouthes in this twelvemonth fedd than ever it didde the whiles Kyng Arthur supped him there. First comith that pritty knight Sir Robert, the Taylor yclept, and feigneth to bee Launcelot, and then harde after hym ye yongge esquirt Robert a Wagner, yt callith himselfe Prince Valiant...
...nowe is al Reasoun disperplyd, for lo! ther rideth out of the Weste upon usse Sir Alaine the Ladd, whych is siccar the most onnatural knight that ever was my doole to see. Ho! Ho! For hee kann not gat his legs arounde a propre Hors, beeing knocken knee. Therfor muste an other ryde into battail in his stead, whiles hee sits pyght and pritty on a woodan tubbe ycovred in hors hyde, and doth preetende to make the onslaught-slishe! slashe!-a-straking o' the air on's Sworde, and a-brasting of's cheekes...
...summons of Queen Elizabeth, he hurried to the white and gold drawing room of Buckingham Palace. The young Queen bade him kneel before her, and with a glittering sword touched him on each shoulder. When he arose, Britain's handsome Foreign Secretary was Sir Anthony Eden, Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter...
Everyone agreed it was a handsome way to reward a knight-in-waiting. And last week it was abundantly clear that Sir Anthony still had some waiting ahead of him. Sir Winston rejuggled his government, shaking out seven relative oldsters (averaging 61 years) and bringing in seven young replacements (average age: 41). The changes were convincing evidence that 79-year-old Sir Winston intends to hang on awhile...