Word: knights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Annie Knight Gregory, 100, "last true Daughter of the American Revolution" (her father was one of George Washington's drummer boys at Valley Forge); in Williamsport...
Lawrence H. Hyde, Jr. '46, of Belmont and Eliot House, the former vice-president of PBH, was elected president at the last cabinet meeting, replacing Peter Kranz, who resigned yesterday. The new vice-president is Bert Knight '46, of Youngstown, Ohio and Eliot House...
Died. Bertha Knight Landes, 75, first woman mayor of a major U.S. city (Seattle, 1926-28); in Ann Arbor, Mich. Wife of a professor, mother of two, vigorous Mrs. Landes became "wide-open" Seattle's mayor at 58. She made its trolley lines pay for the first time in ten years, made life miserable for pimps and bookies...
...champagne, plump, vigorous Mrs. Doherty treated a press photographer to a fine demonstration of the simple, or one-ply, nose-thumb. The gesture had true sweep, high photogenic quality (see cut), and was generally conceded to be the most striking cultural event in the Metropolitan since Lawyer Richard Knight's historic cartwheel in the same room (TIME, Dec. 11, 1939)From the Met's first week it seemed obvious that Manhattan's third wartime opera season was going to sound very much like, and sell even better than, its second. Every performance (reflecting the current boom...
Four of these men, when asked for their opinions on the institution they had entered recently, gave it their hearty endorsement. Knight disagreed with the widely held belief that it is a revolting tribal custom. He said it deserved nothing but praise, had made him a better...