Word: knights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Knight Errant. In Carmel, Calif., the City Council heard Councilman Allen Knight defend local landlords, then learned its rent had been almost doubled...
This British tendency of exaggerating hardships is not new. One of Eric Knight's characters, a Yorkshire Communist, once boasted: "That's what makes us great. We're the bulldog breed proletarians. . . . For us can stand more downtreading than any other proletarians in t'world...
What do they think of union-needling Columnist Westbrook Pegler? Pungent examples: "Westbrook Pegler is a knight in brilliant array who should be knocked from his horse." "A sour-vinegar writer . . . who exposes the abuses of labor unions without giving due account to the good work that most unions...
Alec Templeton (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). The blind musical satirist with tiptoe-singer Evelyn Knight as his guest...
...best up-&-coming girl with a style all her own is doe-voiced Evelyn Knight, who has a pull in Manhattan's plushiest nightclubs second only to Hildegarde. She made a hit by singing with soft assurance such old-fashioned tunes as Grandfather's Clock and a streamlined version of Buffalo Gals called Dance with a Dolly ("with a hole in her stocking"). Newest favorite at Greenwich Village's famed Cafe Society Downtown is Sarah Vaughn, a pianist turned vocalist, who swoops up & down and around the melody in East of the Sun and Body and Soul...