Word: knights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colonel Henry had made a business of supplying Germany with military information; that advantage of the Anti-Semetic feeling had been taken to victimize Alfred Dreyfus for their wrongdoing. Captain Dreyfus was restored to the active list of the army with rank of Major and was created a knight of the Legion of Honor. So ended a case which had resulted in the discrediting of French militarism and contributed largely to the disestablishment of the French Church...
...Patented in 1903 by Robert E. Knight of the General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y. In 1920 the U. S. G A. also barred this type of club (TIME...
...Patented in 1903 by Robert E. Knight of the General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y. Walter Travis, many times an amateur champion and noted especially for his putting ability, brought the " Schenectady" to fame in 1904 by using one to win the British Amateur Championship. In 1905, the British Golf Association barred centre-shafted clubs from its tournaments. In 1920, the U.S.G.A. followed suit. But, like the forbidden rib-faced mashie, "Schenectadies" are still widely...
...Every knight of St. John swears to "protect women, the orphans, and the weak," and must possess a name untouched by scandal. Last week, in Berlin, there was inaugurated as Grand Master of the Order of St. John a gentleman whose virtue is unsmirched, Prince Oscar Charles Gustav-Adolf von Hohenzollern, 38, fifth son of onetime King and Emperor Wilhelm...
...Princess Charlotte divorced her husband, charging that he had caused her "mental anguish." Presumably this violated his oath to "protect women . . . and weak." A conclave of 'the Order of St. John met secretly, accepted the resignation of Prince Eitel-Friedrich as Grand Master, then declared him "an honorary Knight of St. John...