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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scandals of the royal household from the time of King Feraburz down to the last imperial debauch. They can speculate in a way that is delightful to hear upon the probable sequences of events if the King's favorite mistress hadn't run away with the Fourth Knight of the Backstairs. In short, I make the Satellites see the collective importance of little things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Persian University Letter No. 2 | 4/17/1925 | See Source »

Tomorrow is the last day on which compositions for the George Arthur Knight prize in Music will be received. The prize of $75 is given for the best composition in instrumental music. The competition is open to all members of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Last Day for Knight Contestants | 4/14/1925 | See Source »

...Knights. The National Child Welfare Association has a unique plan for improving bad boys. "We will make knights of them," it decided, thereupon founded the "Knighthood of Youth" (or "The Order of Character"). These knights do not curse and hold wassail; they do not devote themselves to the performance of high-flown absurdities in the interests of their ladies, brawl with one another with dangerous implements; there is no reveling about any table, round or otherwise; no spurring of jaded stallions; no wearing of women's garters on the cap. On the contrary, these are knights in name only. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Juvenilia | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...Burch, Chairman, Miss Ruth Heeks; L. L. Daggett, Miss Virginia Otis; H. P. Freeman, Miss Marjorie Parker; Karl Karsian, Miss Fannie Knight; C. R. Brooks Miss Helen Stewers; J. R. Pattee, Miss Ruth Frankenberg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNOUNCE BOX LISTS FOR JUNIOR FESTIVITY | 3/4/1925 | See Source »

...pair of boots for Jack Sheppard," "A sword for the Red Knight," "A suit of armor for Sir Florian." Thus spoke honest burghers in London printshops on Saturday nights. They laid down their pennies, took home boots, sword, armor, cut them from their cards, pasted them on the effigies of contemporary actors. They took pains. Often the scenes constructed in the three-sided rooms of the toy theatres were works of subtle art. Artists afterwards famed sometimes got bread by engraving the penny cards, the tuppeny cards-Blake, Flaxman, Cruikshank. Thousands worked at the making of the theatres; now only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Penny Plain | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

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