Word: knights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Davis is a Mason, Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias, Elk, Moose...
From Malta the Air Knight and Lady continued across the Mediterranean to Italian Tripoli upon the Afric shore. Thence across Libya to Egypt and Cairo, where Lady Maud donned her afternoon dress for tea at Shepherds Hotel. Next day the Hercules soared over the Holy Land, descending at Ziza in Palestine. Thence the 543-mile flight to Bagdad was taken in a single jump. Persia and "the road that leadeth to Isphan" loomed...
People who lack music often complain that music lacks humor. Such people never grasp witty music, the intentioned epigrams of Ravel and Scriabine, of that deft and revered knight, Sir Arthur Sullivan. They can understand performers who make fun of serious music, burlesquing well-known classics, but how performers can, without irreverence, have fun with music these complainers cannot see. Few such gentry were in the Cleveland audience which last week heard a drunken Russian cab driver conduct the Volga boat-song. Nicolai Sokolov, Cleveland Orchestra conductor, famed interpreter of the Russians, had just directed his orchestra through...
...developing new lines or by cutting prices. This year Detroit anticipated only a new Hudson-Essex line and new Reos. It eyed South Bend for a Studebaker announcement. In Indianapolis, Marmon had announced a new light eight, and Auburn another. John North Willys had already announced a new Willys-Knight 70, his Overland "Whippet" of 1926 having failed to excite the public as calculated. Fresh refinements, knickknacks, improved appearance were expected in such cars as Dodge, Nash and Chrysler, but nothing radical. All these companies finished the year strongly. Overshadowing everything was the apparent overhauling of Henry Ford in volume...
...London with a dramatic critic, I remarked: 'I find that in America leg shows bring cultured people all around me. In fact. I might be a prizefighter.' 'Then you would be popular over here,' said he. 1 replied: 'I might even be made Knight of the Bath...