Word: knights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most Californians, however, are far from disenchanted with Goodie Knight...
...autographed portrait beams from thousands of desks, mantelpieces, and the walls of meeting halls all over the state ("Our little billboards," smiles Kleinberger, who distributes them by the truck-load). Knight's name has become, in the most literal sense, a household word: Los Angeles teenagers, when they say farewell at night, say "governor," not "good night." Running for the governorship last year, he demonstrated his political prowess with a landslide (551,151 votes) victory over Democrat Richard Graves...
Hell, with the radio, any idiot can make a speech if he can read. It has hurt the country, too. We don't know our candidates like we used to." Ten Carloads of Horses. Knight's parents both came of solid, pioneer, Mormon stock. His maternal grandfather, Judge John Milner, was a British lawyer who went to Provo, Utah for his health, became Brigham Young's secretary, a Mormon, and a fount of culture and learning...
When Lillie, the judge's golden-haired daughter, caught the eye of Jess Knight, a local farm lad, Judge Milner influenced Jess to get a law degree after he got Lillie's hand. Jess and Lillie obediently went off to the University of Michigan...
Goodwin Jess,* their second child, was born in a tiny house in Provo in 1896. Father Knight was restless and bored with the law, and when Goodie was still a small boy, the family moved on to Los Angeles, taking along ten carloads of mountain horses to sell in California as a grubstake...