Word: knights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emperor Hirohito will be expelled by Britain as Knight of the Garter, lose his honorary field marshalship in the British Army...
...Invitation to Learning (TIME, Oct. 21, 1940) returned at a new time, 11:30 a.m. to 12 E.S.T., with discussion of the second most popular books in the world (Don Quixote). The talkers Mark Van Doren, John Peale Bishop and Jacques Barzan, examined the mad knight of Cervantes as an archetype of all high-minded but ill-informed reformers, found a recent treatment of the same subject in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. They agreed, however, that Cervantes' Man-in-the-Street. Sancho Panza, learned from Don Quixote a lot that he needed to know...
Winston Churchill cabled Captain Agnew congratulations. King George VI named him a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath for his deed, unprecedented in World War II: finding and destroying an entire convoy...
Last week the Miami (Fla.) Herald (John S. Knight chain) provided its editorial department with brand-new typewriters. So astounding was this innovation that Herald Columnist Jack Bell wrote a whole flabbergasted column on the unprecedented event, completely neglected mention that the Herald had the day before completed a modernization job costing...
...April Charles Lindbergh joined the crusade. He wrote his own speeches, said what he believed, submitted to no pre-speech censorship. He became America First's idol and white knight. Along with Mrs. Lindbergh, he became an intimate of Bob Wood and a frequent guest at the Woods' comfortable lakeside house. Often the General and the Colonel, plain men both, sat up talking until midnight, a late hour for Bob Wood, who habitually leaves parties...