Word: knights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bill Lewis made his living by interpreting the U.S. to Britons, but he won his knighthood for explaining Britain to Americans. He never took his official honor too seriously, or his titles of "unofficial ambassador" and "dean of correspondents." When a friend asked what it meant to be a knight, he boomed: "Well, I'll tell you, old boy. Willmott Lewis used to fetch $250 per lecture. Sir Willmott Lewis gets...
Happy Ending. In Bethune, France, Henri Roy, 102, learned that he had at last been made a Knight of the Legion of Honor, murmured, "Now I can die . . . happy," died...
...Aragon tries earnestly to explain that Michel's gigolory results from his being at heart a frustrated knight-errant in today's ignoble world. She redeems his calloused soul by making him die nobly in World War II. But three-fourths of The White Charger is simply a listing of Michel's tedious romantic conquests. Only the most dogged reader will remember, by the end, just what made Elisabeth different from Mary, or from Marjorie, and Riri, and Gisėle, and Irene, and Francine, and Nicole, and Mariana, and Lu-cette, and Lily-to mention only...
...KENNETH KNIGHT...
...since he raised his price to a nickel. (But Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Tribune, still 3?, was rocking along at a 1,100,000-a-day clip.) No. 2: newsprint, $61 a year ago, had gone up to $85 a ton. No. 3: hard-headed John S. Knight, whose Daily News is the Sun's landlord, had raised the rent $800,000 a year. (The late Daily News Publisher Frank Knox had set it low, to help Field assault the Tribune.) Finally, said Field, he personally could go on taking losses for years-but if he died...