Word: armorer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Monna Vanna. The Middle Ages, the ages of picturesqueness, make good movie copy. So Maeterlinck's play of the days of the warring Italian city-states has all the advantages of armor, battle and the full trappings of romance. Lee Perry plays the beautiful Monna Vanna to a knight's taste and all that a curious, if bloodthirsty, audience could ask in addition would be more scenes of the heat of battle...
Certain of the Fundamentalists, armed with the Gospel armor, have already entrenched themselves behind the left-hand column printed above. Between the left and righthand, they say there is no middle ground, no compromise...
...they become greatly inflamed and cause painful ulcers. His face is the shrunken visage of an old man. The nurses at the Charity Hospital call him " Grandpop." The disease is fatal unless the sun can be kept away from the skin. A New York electrical engineer devised a protective armor to filter the sun's rays so that only those milder than the red of the spectrum can reach the lad's body...
...suffer was the New Jersey. The attack began at 8.52 a.m. Flying at 10,000 feet, a group of aeroplanes dropped 600-lb. bombs. Later from 6,000 feet, several 2,000-lb. bombs were loosed. Most of the bombs hit alongside as was intended, for the deck armor was considered impermeable to the bombs dropped...
...Genouilhac armor for man and horse, worn by Louis XII's master of artillery and his mount in 1527, has been added to the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, and mounted on a model of the famous horse in Verrocchio's equestrian statue of Bartolommeo Colleone, the Venetian...