Word: knights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reviving a farce comedy from the age of rollicking Elizabethan drama, the D. U. Fraternity will present Francis Beaumont's "Knight of the Burning Pestle" Friday and Saturday nights at the Chapter House, 396 Harvard Street...
...back in the Tower before a warm fire the Vagabond pores over the travels of that wily Spanish knight, Pero Tafur, who saw the corruption and all the false show of Byzantium eighteen years before it was taken. It was not the glittering, splendid luxury which dazzled the minds of the West...
...Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and the Governors of the Commonwealth regularly occupy adjacent positions of honor at all public functions, subscribe their names as patrons to the same good works, and support very nearly the same causes and matters of public policy. An Irishman who is a Knight of Malta was elected to the presidency of the $50,000,000 Boston Edison Company, after serving a mixed apprenticeship at Holy Cross and the very Harvard firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden and Perkins. There is another who is a director on the board of Boston's dominant financial organization...
...first, the famous "Knight, Death and Devil", mediaeval characteristics predominate. A knight is seen riding to battle, haunted by a leering Death dangling a symbolic hour glass...
...third, "St. Jerome in his Study", the composition is kept extremely simple. No superfluous details are to be found, all attention being directed toward the solitary figure of tremely simple. The mysticism and confusion of "Knight, Death and Devil...