Word: knights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playwright Kelly is no punch-puller-and no knight of chivalry. In The Deep Mrs. Sykes he brings down the whip, with a kind of cold fury, on the whole "female" nature. Yet he carefully digs beneath behavior for motive, explains Mrs. Sykes as well as excoriates her. In fact, he explains everybody-a virtue that winds up as a kind of fault, because the play resorts to outside enlightenment rather than selfrevelation; it tells rather than shows. The result is more like a solved cryptogram than a thing of flesh & blood. But, if not a satisfying experience, The Deep...
Behind almost every major U.S. newspaper sale in the past ten years has been a hustling, cocksure trader whose name rarely appears in print. The men he represented got the headlines: Marshall Field III, or Akron's Jack Knight, the nation's fastest rising newspaper owner. The man-behind-the-deal got the Miami Herald for Knight, then sold him the Detroit Free Press, lock, stock and Edgar A. Guest. Five months ago, he helped Knight buy the Chicago Daily News, fourth largest afternoon paper in the U.S. His chores for Marshall Field include winning over Milton (Terry...
...from the Siegfriedian fastnesses of the Rhineland, a German officer wrote to his wife: "A storm is shaking the German tree and all the weak leaves are falling. . . . But . . . look every day at our picture by Dürer of Ritter, Tod und Teufel ["The Knight, Death and the Devil"-see cut]. . . . Go fearlessly along that small bit of road which still separates us from finality...
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...this country the plan would calm the populace considerably. Take John L. Lewis, for instance. . . . How easy it would be, if we had a king, to knight Lewis. . . . Sir Jonathan Llewellyn Lewisse of Coalhod-on-Cumberland. Isn't it magic? . . . Not a coal miner will listen to him. [Or] a businessman that got obstreperous. . . . You can see him now: Lord Henry Fordson, Earl of V-8-on-Highway...