Word: knights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cheers & Boos. The next act in the show was the drive to the Casa Rosada, between blue & white striped Argentine flags springing from Buenos Aires' handsome, grey stone buildings. The packed throngs, who saw Perón as a modern knight in the shining armor of socialistic endeavor, shouted "Perón! Perón!" again and again. The diplomats, too, got cheers -except Yanqui George S. Messersmith, who got boos and whistles. (Foreign Minister Juan Atilio Bramuglia next day called at the U.S. Embassy to apologize for his countrymen...
Against the dragon, Hunger, strode a new knight last week. Out as Food Minister went Sir Ben Smith, a pottering ex-cabby; in came a more dashing champion, glamorous, aristocratic Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey. Of all Labor's hopefuls his was the shiniest armor and the sharpest lance. Impressive showings in the House as Under Secretary for Air had gained John Strachey's advancement to "the stickiest job in the Government...
Ever since the U.S. Communist Party had expelled him, it had looked as though he were just another pawn sacrificed in one of the Kremlin's policy plays. But now, Browder looked less like a pawn, more like a knight on Communism's big board...
England's Edward II used to shock his court by an inordinate fondness for bathing and for an ambitious Gascon knight named Piers Gaveston. But after his wife, Isabella of France, got fed up and had Edward murdered in 1327, the hero worship of the populace triumphed over the sour recollections of the aristocrats who had known him. Although he has never been canonized, Edward II became (like his forerunner, Edward "the Confessor," no kin) a royal "saint...
...Reutlinger, city editor of the Herald-American, was turning his journalistic cartwheels again. They had given up hoping he would fall on his face; but they still marveled at the razzle-dazzle that has pushed his paper (circ. 562,000) out in front of the competing Times and Jack Knight's Daily News...