Word: knights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then came the marriages of Elvera Kniese and Howard Knight; also Jean Kelly and Clay Bader, who had imported her for that purpose. Knight suffered the catastrophe of spending his meagre honeymoon leave in sickbay, by himself...
...science master when readers noticed his first novel, Pip (1907), a sentimental journey into average British boyhood. In the next five years, the sales of three more boysome novels made Pip into a mere squeak. Author Hay gave up teaching for writing. His most successful novels: A Knight on Wheels, A Man's Man, A Safety Match. He hit the jackpot again with Britain's popular melofarce, Tilly of Bloomsbury...
...AFFAIR "OF THE FAINTING BUTLER -Clifford Knight - Dodd, Mead...
...Buckingham Palace, flanked by a young aide and an Air Ministry official. In an anteroom the escort stood aside while the General was ushered alone into His Majesty's study. Forty-five minutes later General Eaker emerged, possessor of one of Britain's highest military honors, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division). If Ira Eaker were a British subject he would have been invested as a knight, becoming Sir Ira; since he is as American as a jeep the knighthood was purely honorary...
Lassie Come Home (M.S.M.), as written by the late Major Eric Knight, was one of the best children's books in years. M.G.M.'s version will delight not only children, but any adult with a healthy childhood memory. Lassie celebrates nothing more profound than the simple and timeworn relationship of a boy and a dog. It dramatizes the uncomplicated goodness of an animal in a complicated human world...