Word: armorer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ancient artistic problem back of Calder's Mobiles: the attempt to capture the flash and beauty of bright metals and bits of color actually in motion. Ten years ago the same problem greatly troubled such an arch-conservative as the late Bashford Dean, curator of arms & armor at the Metropolitan Museum, who begged the museum trustees to allow him to put real men at arms stalking about the corridors in the belief that his beloved harnesses were empty shells unless worn by living models...
...Like Rome" lived up to its title and had us almost expelled by the management, high points being young hopeful Flavius calling for a vanilla popsicle, Roman gladiators rowing back from conquering Gaul in approved crew fashion, and man-eating lions charmed to rest by a jazz band wearing armor...
...read and write, and he knew everything that was going on from the inside. As coach, the most important thing of all, St. Paul. He was quick-witted, of powerful physique, an upholder of sportsmanship. ... He believed in buying good equipment, for he said, 'Put on the whole armor of Christ...
Steward Novikoff-Priboy's battle-station on the Oryol was in the sickbay. When the big guns started, "the heavens resounded like an iron dome struck by Titans' hammers." The Russian shells were armor-piercing but often nonexplosive; the Japanese shells exploded on contact, started hundreds of fires on the Russian ships, which were heavily overdecorated with woodwork. The Japanese gunners concentrated their aim at the leading Russian ships; the Russians shot at anything they could see. First casualty was the Oslyabya. Pounded by six Japanese cruisers, her guns went silent one by one. The jar of each...
...commencement time next spring, in Los Angeles 200 ministers-to-be were graduated with Christendom's dizziest rites from a seminary called the Lighthouse of International Foursquare Evangelism, or simply LIFE. Before admiring parents and friends a drop curtain whizzed up revealing the graduating class clad in shiny armor, brandishing swords and spears, manning a huge, realistic fortress. Below its battlements capered Satan, in multi-colored garments, and a horde of red devils bent on storming the "Fortress of Faith." Massed brass bands blared, everybody burst into song and with tremendous enthusiasm the "Defenders of the Faith" rushed down...