Word: knights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Result of this barrage is that most U.S. readers think what A.P. wants them to think: that the Government is striving to control newspapers; that A.P. is a valiant knight tilting against...
...Miss Edinger, famous for her articles published in German, French, and English, is a refugee scholar and will discuss the tooth replacement in Amphibia and Reptilia. Nabokov was born in Russia and is a scientist as well as novelist, his most recent novel being "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight...
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Bigheaded Richard Allen Knight, disbarred, divorced, disgruntled onetime lawyer and master of legal billingsgate, went on a well-publicized bender in Manhattan. (He once posed for photographers standing on his head outside the Metropolitan Opera House-TIME, Dec. 11, 1939.) On plushy upper Fifth Avenue, he followed up a street-corner conga by soundly bussing a couple of female passersby, then plunged into the Plaza Art Auction Galleries, where he encountered a statuesque beauty (an armless Venus) and struck up a conversation with her. Repairing briefly to the Sherry-Netherland bar, he emerged, gathered another crowd by bawling the headlines...
...Cross Knight, Herbie Hoover, on his glistening white charger, Constitution, the forces of the Right were prepared for a duel to the death with the "un-American" American laborer and the New Deal on the "D-Day" report of the National Resources Planning Board. The plan, highly similar to the British Beveridge Report, has called for a greatly extended social security program, post-war maintenance of full employment guaranteed by the government, and larger government cooperation with industry as well as a share in management by labor. The plan is, admittedly, only a recommendation to Congress; details of legislation, administration...