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Word: knights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been placed at a disadvantage. However, in spite of this lack of veterans, with Captain L. M. Noble, J. T. M. Frey, J. A. Wheelock, and R. F. Vaughan as a nucleus there is good material on which to build. In addition R. W. Lapham and R. C. Knight, both ineligible last year, and several of the 1929. Freshman stars, including Captain R. C. Cady, J. C. Brady, P. Curtis, and E. Manville, will help in forming a successful squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE HOCKEY TEAM WILL START CAMPAIGN TODAY | 12/1/1926 | See Source »

...July, and deposed that she was forced by parental duress to consent to marry in 1895 Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, Ninth Duke of Marlborough, Baron Spencer, Baron Churchill, Earl of Sunderland, Earl of Marlborough, Marquis of Blandford, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Prince of Mindelheim in Suabia, Knight of the Garter, descendant of "England's greatest general" John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), the victor of Blenheim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Duke Regularized | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...this one of his "pleasant," plays, had taken advantage of every possible bit of humor--humor of the broadest sort. He doesn't smile at Raina's medieval fancy about the chivalrous knight who gallops up to the enemy on horseback and kills a hundred men with one stroke of its sword instead the laughs long and loud. In the preface the play he says: "I am not convinced that the world is only held together by force of unanimous, strenuous, eloquent, trumpet tongued lying;" and he goes on to make this statement more emphatic Everybody in the play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CINEMA CRIMSON PLAY GORE DRAMA | 11/10/1926 | See Source »

...luncheon to honor Alan Cobham, holder of the 28,000-mile world's record for long distance point-to-point-and-return flights-England to Australia and return. Clearing his throat, Sir Samuel Hoare announced that it had pleased His Brittanic Majesty to appoint Airman Cobham a Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grief | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...years ago, is an author of considerable note. His works include "The Potter and the Clay," "Rays of Dawn," "Victory and After," and "The Spirit of Peace." He was born in Worcestershire, England, January 28, 1858, and was made Bishop of London in 1901. In 1915 he was created Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, and in 1918 made Prelate of the Order of the British Empire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BISHOP OF LONDON IS HARVARD GUEST | 10/15/1926 | See Source »

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