Word: knights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present style. The Battle of Crecy is laid out, a decisive battle, to be sure, but as bare of any imagination stimulating incident as a scrimmage between two sandlot football team. The picturesque is gone; there is nothing of the blind king of Bohemia charging into battle among his knight, or the stand of the English archers against wave after wave of the French chivalry. All of this is unessential from the modernist point of view. The student will learn what the issue was, fought between a handful of men, and what the result. But the players in the drama...
Manuscripts for the George Arthur Knight Prize must be left with the Chairman of the Department of Music by noon today to be considered in this year's competition...
...Knight prize of $75 is given for the best composition in instrumental music, preference to be given to compositions for string quartettes or trios, though compositions with piano accompaniment may be offered in competition...
Anyone who goes to the Union tonight expecting to see the traditional knight of the gum-shoe will be sadly disappointed in W. J. Burns. He has all the uncanny genius of a Sherlock Holmes, but he combines it with the calm, every-day matter-of-factness of the average American business executive. As organizer of one of the greatest detective bureaus of the world, he has probably contributed more to the science of detecting crime than anyone living; but it is for his achievements single-handed in his pooneer days that he is most famous. Mr. Burns has crowded...
...George Arthur Knight Prize...