Word: knights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mentioned rarely and discreetly in the press, blew the lid off his own story by standing on his head at the Metropolitan Opera House. By so doing, in the midst of a brilliant host of spectators who had gathered to celebrate opera's seasonal opening, Richard Allen Knight became news...
...Dick Knight was a Texas boy, with a big body, big head, and big ideas about getting on in the world. He went north to study law at Harvard. In 1924, armed with a degree and a recommendation from Felix Frankfurter (now an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States), he headed for Manhattan. Two things he wanted. One was money. The other: to be known and admired by everybody who was anybody in the Big City...
Four years later Richard Knight had a $200,000 bank account, was earning more than $80,000 a year. He specialized in sensational divorce cases. Not yet 30, Lawyer Knight lived in a suite at the St. Regis. He drove a Cadillac, had spent a week on the Riviera with a celebrated prima donna, boasted that he called Mrs. Vincent Astor by her first name...
Just what was "Sir" Neville Chamberlain doing in the British House of Commons as reported in TIME for Nov. 6, p. 20? The last I heard he was still just plain Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Great Britain. Did TIME knight him or did TIME slip...
...ushers will be as follows: from Harvard, Blair Clark '40, John H. Sisson '40, Charles D. Lutz '40, Robert Fulton '40, Vinton Freedley '40, and Thomas W. Casey '40; and from Yale, Nelson Schwab, Jr., David P. Ferriss, Robert Knight, John C. Hindley, and James Camp...