Word: knights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Queen-Empress returned from this function she found Baby Betty in a teething fret, with Nurse Knight attempting to sooth her. Three days later the Princess cut her first tooth...
Britons know that it was Nurse Knight who gave to Baby Betty a close-fitting necklace of tiny coral beads. The hygienic feature of this necklace is that it is too short to be gotten up over the chin and into the mouth. "Nurse Knight necklaces," as worn by Baby Betty, have become the accepted adornment for occupants of the smart patent leather prams which parade daily in Hyde Park...
Tasso's epic poem, Jerusalem Delivered, was Van Dyck's inspiration for the painting. Armida, a lovely sorceress, tempts Knight Rinaldo from his crusade against the infidel in Jerusalem. The canvas shows Rinaldo, with half his armor off, lolling sublimely in the caresses of Armida and her sprites. Van Dyck painted it expressly for Charles I in 1629 and 1630. It has been in England ever since, until Knoedler & Co. recently bought it, shipped it to Manhattan. Jacob Epstein first saw it in Knoedler's London galleries...
...Majesty did, however, create him a Knight of the Garter...
...Treasure Room one may see the Latin poem written by Downing at the time of his marriage, "In Nuptias Blri were Honoratifsimi Georgil Downing... Campo exploratoris Generaliffimi." Equally interesting is the tract, "Reply of Sir George Downing Knight and Baronet Extraordinary from His Majesty of Great Britain to the Remarks of the Deputies of the Estates General upon his Memorial of December 20, 1664, Old Stile." This was printed in London "Anno...