Word: knights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Artist-Publisher Mitchell drew the first Life nameplate with its mascot cupids, later contributed the famed masthead of a knight leveling his lance at the posterior of a fleeing devil...
...Bruce Winton Knight-Knopf...
...first chapter of this harsh and hair-raising little book, Author Bruce Winton Knight, professor of economics at Dartmouth, gravely announces his argument: "Thus far in human history no formula has proved equal to the task of preventing more or less extended periods of peace." Purporting to solve that problem, How to Run a War is an ingenious pacifist tour de force, addressed to wealthy and politically powerful U. S. citizens who are "primarily responsible for American policies and opinions." As such, the book is filled with material that is likely to frighten good pacifists out of their wits...
Professor Knight begins his demonstration with some explicit advice on how to get into a war, detailing the steps that led to the U. S. entry into the World War as an illustration. He ends his grisly volume with an account of the cost of the World War (his estimate is $400,000,000,000) and a warning to his hypothetical audience of powerful individuals on the cost of another such conflict to them. Between these two points he has compressed into 243 pages an inclusive study of war propaganda, a rapid but convincing survey of innovations in warfare finance...
...Knight begins with an episode of chivalric romance--the story of Palamon and Arcite. When the Miller, who is "dronke with ale," interrupts, a squabble ensues, and it is some time before the Man of Law can tell his Tale...