Word: knights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Those who have wrongly assumed that Mr. Roosevelt is a spotless knight-errant of progressivism have acquired the habit of blaming subordinates for actions which they dislike. ... As a matter of fact the President is personally responsible for more that goes on in his administration than those friendly critics often suspect. . . . Foreign policy [is] an example. . . . The concessions of his administration to expediency in foreign affairs might have been expected in view of similar concessions in domestic affairs...
...World of Plenty is a lecture about food and international hunger, past, present and future. Written by the late Eric Knight, edited by Paul Rotha and clarified by the animated charts of the Isotype Institute,* this documentary is amusing, honest, exciting, intelligent, understandable, always for two reasons: 1) common sense about moving pictures; 2) common sense about human beings. Reason No.1 makes every shot count while the commentator talks. Reason No. 2 saves the film from two of the banes of pedagogy: technological jargon and talking down...
...Jere Knight, widow of Major Eric Knight (This Above All), was made a 2nd lieutenant in the WACs at Fort Des Moines...
Rudolf von Ribbentrop, 22-year-old, London-educated son of the German Foreign Minister, got the Knight's Insignia of the Iron Cross for service on the Russian front. He commands a tank company...
Said New York Post Photography Editor John Adam Knight: "One of the amazing things to come out of this war has been the uniformly bad photography produced by the Army Signal Corps. . . . Another phenomenon is the superiority of the pictures sent back by young and relatively inexperienced photographers, such as Elisofon, as compared with the work of oldtime press photographers sent over by the picture syndicates...