Word: armored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Caraiman" tested out popular sentiment, was "well though not wildly cheered. It was announced that Carol "insisted" upon flying "on to Bucharest," although this would be "dangerous" as "darkness" was approaching. At this point the building up of legend, which surrounds every King and is part of his royal armor, began...
...Teacher Myrtle Pierson, the little girls in white and the little boys in black walked into the Vatican, past towering papal guardsmen in medieval armor. Conducted by scarlet ushers into the audience chamber of the Supreme Pontiff, they were arranged in a neat, kneeling row, faces upturned, eyes sparkling with interest...
...soon as he was big enough to turn the pinion wheels of a microscope, small and studious Bashford Dean began to study natural history. His interest in armor also began early. When he was six years old he visited the home of one Carlton Gates in Yonkers, stood for half an hour in rapt contemplation of a beautiful Maximilian helmet. Four years later Carlton Gates died, his effects were sold at auction. Ten-year-old Bashford Dean insisted on being taken to the auction, was heartbroken when the cherished helmet went for more money than he could afford. Clutched...
...temporarily forsook the trappings of war to concentrate on fish. In 1886 he became a Tutor of Natural History, in 1896 Assistant Professor of Zoology. In 1890 he won his Ph.D. with a thesis: Pineal Fontanelle of Placaderm and Catfish. His interest in fish and his interest in armor remained parallel. In 1903 he was appointed Curator of Fishes & Reptiles at the Museum of Natural History. In 1906 he became Honorary Curator (without salary) of Arms & Armor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Almost the same time that he was obtaining the invaluable Riggs collection of armor for the Metropolitan...
...trustees of the Metropolitan persuaded him to accept a salary for his work as curator of armor, but until his retirement in 1927 he made it a point of honor to present the museum every year with a piece of armor, a sword, or a helmet nearly as valuable as his total stipend. In 20 years he visited every important armory in the world, scoured every quarter of the globe for ancient weapons...