Word: knights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knight W. McMahan '33, assistant in Philosophy, and Francis Keppel '38, former president of the Student Council, have received appointments as assistant deans of the College, effective next September, the University announced today...
...siege of Pampeluna in 1521, a French cannon ball whizzed between the legs of a Basque knight named Íñigo de Oñez y Loyola, breaking his right shin and tearing his left calf. For the Roman Catholic Church, beleaguered by the Protestant Reformation, that shot was providential. Íñigo, laid up in his castle (and ever after afflicted with a limp), began thinking pious thoughts which led him, in 1534, to form a "flying squadron," the Society of Jesus, in the front ranks of the Church's Counter Reformation against Protestantism...
...article brought an immediate call at the Foreign Office from German Minister Prinz Viktor zu Wied, who called it a gross insult on the person of the Field Marshal. The author of that gross insult, it turned out, was none other than the Knight of the Silver Shield-Nils Silfver sköld, brother-in-law of Field Marshal Göring...
Typical signers: Manhattan's Congregationalist Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers; Baptist Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick; Episcopal Bishop Paul Jones of Yellow Springs. Ohio; United Brethren Bishop Arthur Raymond Clippinger of Dayton, Ohio; Quaker Clarence E. Pickett of Philadelphia; Methodist Ernest Fremont Tittle of Evanston...
...production lacks all style and almost all significance. What might have been a tour de force jumps so fast from one thing to another as to be a non sequitur de force. Often good theatre, it is never good drama, just as Welles's portrayal of the fat knight is often good fun but seldom good Falstaff. Played on a twelve-part revolving stage that keeps circling like a Lazy Susan on a breakfast table, Five Kings is fatally shorn of all stage illusion...