Word: knights
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...above is from "Murder in the Cathedral", the speech of the Third Knight. Just try changing some of the names...
Thos. Cook & Son Ltd. scored with a knighthood to Great-Grandson Thomas Cook, 34, "the youngest knight dubbed since 1911"; British Broadcasting Corp. with knighthood for its musical director, Dr. Adrian Cedric Boult; and among the 53 others knighted were George VI's private secretary, Major the Hon. Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge, and Nigel Leslie Campbell, principal banking trustee for the $10,000,000 philanthropic fund just given by Motor Maker Lord Nuffield to succor Britain's unemployed and honor Stanley Baldwin for his handling of the Constitutional Crisis (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week Nuffield got nothing...
...cases by churchy Mrs. Baldwin, were to obtain the abdication of Edward VIII and pick Sir Thomas Inskip to co-ordinate Imperial Defense. At the time of this surprise appointment (TIME. March 23) British wiseacres called it a "typical Baldwin bumble'' and predicted that the Prayer-Book Knight as an Imperial Defender would "outbumble Baldwin." Today Sir Thomas, like Lord Swinton, "misses a great deal of knowledge by his lack of tact," but Mrs. Baldwin is firmly convinced that he is as right as King Edward was wrong and that "character is more important than ability...
Dignity, like the Imperial mantle which is placed upon England's King at his Coronation, clothed Edward VIII and his every act last week after the decision of His Majesty to abdicate and become not "Mr. Windsor" but Prince Edward, newly created Duke of Windsor, and still Knight of the Most Ancient & Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Knight of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Star of India, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Grand Master of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael & St. George, Grand Master...
...rejecting a new set of designs for British Army uniforms. He chats about Polar conditions with Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, who afterwards calls His Majesty "cheerful" and denies they talked about selling the King's money-losing Canadian ranch. Edward VIII does the duty of dubbing an Indian politician knight (name: Ramaswami Srinivasa Sarma), and is icily angry when perspiring Mr. Baldwin rushes in, soon rushes off hatless again to consult the Cabinet, rushes back and confronts Edward VIII in their angriest scene thus far. The Prime Minister applies to a twice-divorced woman the fighting words "damaged goods...