Word: templars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committing himself on anything, no backslapper, but easy and humorous when with friends. Has an intuitive knack for picking good subordinates, but has been called thin-skinned to criticism. A Presbyterian, and a great joiner (American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Shriners, Knights Templar, Elks, Eagles, Kiwanis, the Capital Card Club, etc.). Loves riding and campaigning on horseback; in parades, he exchanges his conservative suits for a white, gaily embroidered cowboy costume and ten-gallon hat. Married to Mabel Hill, whom he met in his college days; two daughters, both married, five grandchildren...
...authentic British locales by Director Richard Thorpe, Ivanhoe is at its best in its spectacular action sequences: Ivanhoe (Robert Taylor), resplendent in black armor on a black charger, splintering lances with five Norman knights in the lists at Ashby; Ivanhoe championing the persecuted Rebecca (Elizabeth Taylor) against Norman Templar de Bois-Guilbert (George Sanders) in a savage battle with hand ax and mace & chain to the neighing of horses and the funereal beating of drums; the flaming assault on Torquilstone castle, where Rowena (Joan Fontaine) is held captive by the sneering Sir Hugh de Bracy (Robert Douglas), with thousands...
...Knights Templar, highest order within the Masonic York Rite, make use of the New Testament in their ritual. Other orders, within both the York and Scottish Rites, base their ritual on the Old Testament, affirm the existence of a Supreme Being, neither affirm nor deny the divinity of Jesus Christ...