Word: knights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later, when Columnist Coates presented the parents on his TV show, the reaction was instantaneous: shocked viewers flooded the station with 700 phone calls, 1,000 letters and several petitions, copies of which had been sent to the State Capitol at Sacramento. California's Governor Goodwin Knight even called Riverside to find out what was going...
...Curtis B. Johnson, widow of the Observer's longtime publisher, who owned 5,750 (57½%) shares of stock, and Mrs. Walter B. Sullivan, widow of the Observer's co-owner, who held the rest of the stock. The Observer's new publisher will be Jim Knight, executive vice president of the chain and general manager of the Miami Herald. Said new Publisher Knight in a city-room talk to the Observer's staff: "We intend to run the Observer as a completely local operation. We have a few tricks we can offer you as consultants...
...Knights run true to form, the Observer will probably grow bigger and richer. The Knight papers boast the fastest growing circulation in their areas, with advertising to match. Since the Knight brothers took over the Akron Beacon Journal from their father, its circulation has grown more than 135%, to 152,381. The Chicago Daily News has jumped almost 35%, to 576,350 since they bought it, while the Detroit Free Press has grown 40%, to 456,261 daily, jumped 48,000 last year alone; the Miami Herald has upped its circulation more than 325%, to 204,774 daily...
...Ansiau, knight and onetime Crusader, sets out on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, becomes blind on the way, is captured in the Holy Land by the infidel and lashed to a mill which he is forced to turn like an ox. His son Herbert le Gros, a gay blade who lives life to the hilt, meanwhile sticks to the manor, takes all the land and love he can get, and happily commits incest with his wild and passionate half sister, who hates him ("I shall . . . make his blood rot, send snakes to drink his eyes, and leeches to suck his heart...
...third generation has lost the lust for power but kept the impulse toward God. Young Haguenier, Herbert's son, is a moonstruck knight who has chosen to serve a frigid beauty and waits in vain for her to thaw. It is hard to believe that any man, saint or fool, would observe the for mal demands of chivalry and obey each of his lady's whims (such as entering a joust in which his only shield is a mirror that must not be damaged). But Haguenier fulfills all his "trials" until he is driven to drink and finally...