Word: armor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this was the same. But Valentine wore no medieval armor last week in London. He wore instead the uniform of the Royal Air Force. There were laborers in 1926 overalls, and five-pound notes slapped out by Mephistonheles. And in the community festivities men and girls were strangely alike, wore tennis flannels, plus fours and shingled bobs...
...appears that both sides may be accused of flippancy incident to over-confidence. At any rate, the epic conclusion of this cultural conundrum conning hangs uneasily in the balance; while Richard Coeur de Lion rattles his armor in his tomb...
...must be clear to Mr. Duane that he cannot go on forever this way, Pretty soon the sneering darts of his friends will no longer be turned by this new armor. He can fall back upon figures for the profession--law, medicine, education, even business, then upon literature, although best not in the presence of graduates of Yale. And so on, but the newness of his defence will rapidly wear away before the pertinacity of the William and Mary gag and the story of the Harvard man on the crew who rowed number three and knew every...
...puff adders, black mambas, boomslangs (tree snakes); parrots, love birds, giant ground hornbills, fish eagles, secretary birds (snake-killers), brilliant plaintain-eaters, sun-birds and the paradise whydah (whose body is canary size with nine inches of tail); leopard tortoises, monitor lizards (which ravage crocodile nests, eat the eggs), armor-plated pangolins (scaly, ribbon-tongued ant-eater); pottos (small baboon). . . . "There is almost no limit to what might be found," but quality, not quantity, would be the collectors' object...
...ancient taste for art confined to princely personages. That it was widespread among the people appears from the artistic character of armor, statuettes, costumes, coiffures, furniture, and household utensils, such as goblets, dishes, knives, and weights...