Word: armorer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public eye. In the case of Candidate Smith, his enemies see him more and more as a subtle knave of Rum and Romanism wearing the stripes of Tammany. His friends, in turn, are prone to exalt him as a Galahad of the masses, dight in spotless, and stripeless, armor. Actually, of course, he is simply a 54-year-old up-from-the-bottom man whose profession has been politics, whose acquired technique is state-government, whose ambition is what he calls "the highest office in the world." In acquiring his technique he found that knowledge of his job was necessary...
...high price of $52,000 which was offered for Jean-Honoré Fragonard's glittering and beautiful self portrait, and the $16,000 brought by Josef Israëls' pretty painting, Her Treasure. Rembrandt's portrait of the Marquis d'Andelot putting on his armor went to the John Levy Galleries for $86,000; A Young Cavalier, by Frans Hals went for one thousand less. The second highest price of the evening was the $90,000 for which Frederick Bucher bought John Hoppner's cool and charming portrait, Mary Anne, Lady Dashwood-King...
Meanwhile he takes Princess Purta Coujeen as first wife, to bear him heirs, and to rule over his women, already numerous. Flaunted at the lavish wedding festivities are jewels, brocades, gold-chased armor, games, races, wines, meats. Only the beautiful princess holds herself aloof, unmoved, even when her bridegroom accepts two charming virgins as a wedding present. Though she refuses to put herself out to please her new master, she proves an able mistress of his women's quarters. Her favorite punishment is to overturn a large jar of beans in a culprit's presence and then require...
...bequeathed its power in bank directorates, cable companies, cash. Son Clarence, polished by European tutors and universities, is less the director of 58 corporations than the member of 27 clubs. To his guest, Edward of Wales, he could display with dignity the world's finest collection of armor, which lines his great halls on Long Island. The masses know him be cause he is grandfather, without his consent, to the baby daughter of Songwriter Irving Berlin. Intelligent New York knows him as, next to Otto Kahn, its most famed music-patron...
...morning to find him shining his shoes. But if he never sees his janitor and tasted disappointment in the dormitory hotel, which never know a luxurious fulfillment, Massachusetts Avenue still provides him with compensations. One regrats that McKinlock denied the Englishmen acquaintance with those knights in shining armor, the Argentines, the Portuguese and the Greeks...