Word: knightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least this great achievement of Arthur James Balfour, Knight of the Garter, Earl of Balfour, Viscount Traprain of Wittingehame, will long live after him. It is by far the most important document affecting the Near East. And very typical of the career of the Earl of Balfour, is the fact that he died in the estimation of Jews their greatest friend. He also died esteemed and mourned by most U. S. citizens, yet he did more to loose the storm of European hatred against "Uncle Shylock" than any other...
Columbus discovered a New World, and never knew it. Biographer Wassermann has taken this mystical-dogmatic adventurer as the prototype of Cervantes' famed Sorrowful Knight: he has made a good case...
...Majesty may well be proud. He had taken hold of Anglo-U. S. relations when they were still War-snarled. He left them smooth and orderly. For his quiet success, many a friend believed he would be properly rewarded by his sovereign. Now only a Knight, he might well be advanced to a Baron and take the title of Lord Howard of Greystoke, since he was born at Greystoke Castle, Cumberland. Should the Labor Government overlook his Conservative politics and noble lineage, it might permit King George to make him Viscount Greystoke, even Viscount Cumberland...
Decorated. Edward Nash Hurley, 65, Chicago financier, Commander of the Legion of'Honor, order of Ta Sho Cha Ho (China), Grand Officer Crown of Italy, by the Vatican; with the order of Knight...
Decorated. Edward Aloysius Cudahy, 70, Chicago packer; by the Vatican; with the order of Knight of Malta...