Word: knights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill's chief sponsor-white, Tammany-Irish Joe Gavagan, from Manhattan's black Harlem. Said Mr. Colmer, who as district attorney once saved a Negro killer from a mob: "Of course, this bill will pass the House. . . . And I think I can see again . . . the plumed knight of the black people . . . astride a great white steed. ... an emblem of purity. ... All honor to the champion of Harlem. All hail the great white chieftain of the black man!" Contemptuous Joe Gavagan retorted with a newspaper account of the doings in Mr. Colmer's Mississippi, with particular reference...
...bright and valiant knight yclept Sir Vagabond did brace himself for that full mighty deed. Ablution did he make within the chapel, and from the kindly priest did calm and courage take; and from the holy chalice imbibed deep draughts of the juice of the purple grape. His sturdy sword and buckler did he grasp, and kissed for the last time the dainty sleeve which to him his betrothed, the Lily Maid of Noanett, had bequeathed . . . the Lily Maid with lips so red, and bosom white as driven snow...
...fray. Ye blue clad referee soft reclining in the white cupola far cross the seething field, was Sir Vagabond's ultimate goal a stead-fast symbol of safety was this man. Steel clashed on steel, the horns of battle did boom out loud and clear, and the knight with heaving breath and Herculean effort did clear himself a breach across the way, did with uncertain step attain the white cupola...
Married. Barbara Vandenberg Knight, dark, buxom daughter of G. O. P. Senator Arthur Vandenberg and his first (late) wife; and John W. Bailey Jr., son of the late mayor of Battle Creek, Mich., whom Arthur Vanctenberg whopped almost three to one in the 1928 Michigan Senatorial election; in Washington, D. C. Married in 1931, Barbara divorced Husband John Knight in 1935, and again, after remarriage...
Mike Sullivan, the City Councilman who thinks of himself as a lonely knight tilting against the dragon of Communism, revealed yesterday that he knew his resolution banning the use of the words "Lenin" and Leningrad" anywhere in Cambridge was unconstitutional...