Word: knights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor Bertha Knight Landes of Seattle: "Last week I paused, before signing an ordinance creating the job of 'bull cook' at a municipal hydro-electric work camp, to remark: 'It seems that the [City] Council could have adopted a title suggesting some degree of dignity, if not culture.' I then signed the ordinance but oldtime Seattlites wondered what I would have done with documents giving other campworkers their vernacular titles, such as 'chokerman,' 'bucker,' 'king rider,' 'faller,' 'hocker,' 'teeter,' 'punk...
John North Willys owns the U. S. rights to the use of the Knight, sleeve-valve motor. Wary of competition, he has restricted its use in this country to his Willys-Knight and Stearns-Knight motor cars and General Motors Yellow Cab.* Last week appeared a fourth, the Falcon-Knight, six-cylinder car made at Elyria, Ohio, to sell at about...
...Knight Commander of the Bath. (There is also a Hearst Colyumist styled K. C. B.-Kenneth Carrol Beaton-but this is no title...
Then Pat Harrison, Mississippi funnyman, proceeded to pour salt on the wounds, said: "Let him [David A. Reed] go back and receive the cheers of the thugs and corruptionists of Pennsylvania and let them say to him that he is the Knight of the Closed and Corrupt Ballot Box. . . ." It was one minute before noon and the gavel of Vice President Dawes rapped sharply. "Oh, it's a shame to spoil a good speech like this," said Mr. Harrison. By the look in his beady-eyes, the Vice President had something curt to say. He said it: "The Chair...
...realist in competition, confining his ideals to the home. The Jewish mechanism functions directly toward its material ends. The European type is swayed out of its course by the ideals: "gentleman," "patriot" "sportsman"?and forgets that the "gentleman" is only a late survival of the "knight," a type shown to be impractical, and ridiculed by Cervantes...