Word: knights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lawyer Knight's language has been broadcast in a series of mimeographed letters, to a mailing list of more than 3,000. The objective of his mail campaign has been to direct attention to the alleged mishandling of the estate of his late father-in-law, Lewis Cass Ledyard Jr. Lucky readers of his epistles wondered as they read: Why could not more legal writing be like Knight...
...language most lawyers use might just as well be written in Sanskrit, so far as the layman is concerned. But no man, no matter how lay, would have trouble understanding the language of Lawyer Richard Knight. Socialite Knight, who used to shock friends and intoxicate New York tabloid readers by such didos as kicking out taxicab windows and standing on his head at a Metropolitan Opera opening, who for years has swung a legal tomahawk around New York courts, terrifying lawyers and citizens alike, has devoted himself during the past two years to writing. He writes a simple, direct, Elizabethan...
Private-pilot leadership had long hounded Washington for real military recognition. As early as 1938 Milton Knight, young Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. official, had pushed the organization of a Civilian Air Reserve, tacked to military aviation. In 20 States it took that name and others: Civilian Flying Corps, Civilian Air Corps, Air Guard...
...Copyright 1942 by Green Bros; & Knight...
...earlier volumes, Josephus and The Jew of Rome, the nationalist in Josephus succumbed to the internationalist. A young Jewish rebel, he came to recognize the invincibility of Rome, ended the Jewish revolt by proclaiming the Emperor Vespasian as the Messiah. Josephus went to Rome, became a Roman knight and official historian of the Flavian dynasty, spent the rest of his life trying to move Mount Zion and the Capitoline Hill closer together. Result: he was distrusted by the Jews, never accepted by the Romans. But Rome, tolerantly skeptical in religious matters, showed him no official hostility...