Word: knights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Millionaire Philip Knight Wrigley has had many radical ideas since he inherited his father's gum and baseball empire in 1932. He popularized Ladies' Day at big-league ball parks. He introduced sticks of gum to U.S. Army combat rations. For $185,000 he bought Dizzy Dean after his best pitching days were over. Last week P. K. Wrigley unwrapped his latest idea: a professional softball league for women...
Samuel Haydock, Walter Sumner Hayward, Jr., Brooks Nye Heath, Nelson Fischer Hermance, Jr., Harry Lindley Hosford, Jr., Richard Farnsworth Hunnewell, Paul James Kirby, Robert Galen Knight, Francis Edward Lawlor, George Knowlton Lewis, Gustaf Berg Lindquist, Stuart McCarty, Joseph Berard McGrath, Charles Fessenden Morse, 3d., George Nakhnikian, Richard Ober, John Aloysius O'Keefe, 3d., Austin Gill Olney, William Preston Palmer, Jr., Bruce Brandon Phemister, Gerard William Renner, Charles Snelling Robinson, 2d., James Tracy Ronan, Constantine Constantine Spillotakis, Albert Myer Starr, Donald Bruce Talmage, Michael Barrett Thompson, Samuel Lombard Tucker, Charles Bingham Penrose Van Pelt, Burton Ebert Van Vort, John Damien Walsh...
...Italians and escaped with nothing worse than a scare from an Italian torpedo, which missed. Flashed A.B.C.: "Flag to Nelson. Success of your operation should console you for nearly getting slap in belly with wet fish." When Admiral Somerville was given a second knighthood, A.B.C. signaled "Congratulations. Twice a knight. And at your...
From then on things went from bad to worse for the Navy. The Luftwaffe's dive-bombers went to work on Malta; A.B.C. ordered: "These pests must be swept from the sky." Greece fell, then Crete, and when A.B.C. was awarded the Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, he said: "I would rather they had given me three squadrons of Hurricanes." His losses off Crete were terrible: at the end of May 1941 there was not a single undamaged British cruiser or battleship in the whole...
ROYAL NAVY--Hobson, fb; Buckley, 3/4; Mitchell, 3/4; Harris, 3/4; Geddes, 3/4; Knight, sh; Bell, soh; Kilford, f; Berry, f; Edwards, f; Billingham, f; Howes, f; R. Jones, f; E. Jones, f; Ninkwell...