Word: armored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Windsor is full of old masters and old armor. Holbein and Van Dyck painted the kings. The kings wore the armor. The Windsor collection is notably deficient in both pictures and armor of Britain's most picturesque and warlike kings, the Plantagenets...
...lazy, illiterate, Spanish-speaking near-whites his own personal monopolies in salt, shoes, milk, meat and tobacco, paid almost nobody honest wages except the over-sized army of 2,500. He toadied to Washington and, in short, applied the usual formula of Caribbean tyranny. He has an armor-plated Packard car with facsimile field guns for fender lamps, a toothsome white mistress* and their bastard child who has a colonel's rank and colonel's pay. He has been happy but for two annoyances...
...Gullibility filled up the yawning chinks in the propaganda armor of the Allies. The outbreak of the War was a shock to the U. S.: some explanation of the disaster had to be found. The Allies' official defense supplied it-Germany was a criminal. U. S. grounds for this temporarily satisfying belief had already been plowed. ''Long before the great war propagandas began to develop from abroad, the leading organs of American opinion, through the interplay of haste, ignorance and their own psychological necessities, had begun to distinguish in the German Empire a vast, malignant power which...
...distributed anti-war leaflets to the crowd while a chartered airplane overhead rained down more printed matter. Few days later, after the Secretary of War was well out of the way, the Quakers held a meeting of their own in the Plaza, exhibited a model of a dinosaur ("All Armor Plate -No Brains...
...have almost as much trouble with his models as Eakins. One of the most popular illustrators in the U. S., he was paid $200 and $300 apiece for his drawings by Harper's Weekly, but spent almost as much as that on each one for authentic costumes, weapons, armor, furniture, etc. for his models to pose in. The Abbey collection of costumes is now one of the most important treasures of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London...