Word: armorer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secrets Act. Here was a real attraction to place beside the Crown Jewels, Henry VIII's armor and the spot where Anne Boleyn lost her head. Playing up the mysterious Prisoner for all he was worth, London's Daily Express printed a picture showing Tower Green packed with spectators gawking at a tall soldierly figure in a Glengarry bonnet, inked out in silhouet. Even more tickets were sold at the news that the face under the Glengarry bonnet was young and good looking...
...Raphael panel was not the only purchase from Mr. Mackay. At the same time the Museum acquired from him an Adoration of the Shepherds by Mantegna; three historic suits of armor; two belonging to Queen Elizabeth's friends, the Earls of Pembroke and Cumberland, the third to Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France; the finest sword the Museum has ever owned, that of Ambrosio di Spinola, the General of Velazquez's famed Surrender of Breda (The Lances); and the only known 14th Century tapestry depicting King Arthur...
...Long Island last week Mrs. Mackay (Singer Anna Case) was furnishing a gardener's cottage on their Roslyn estate. When the cottage is ready, Mr. & Mrs. Mackay will shutter the big house-paintings, armor, indoor tennis courts & all- let the sunken gardens and model farms run wild, move into the cottage with one servant...
Speeding at 25 knots, two Dutch destroyers and the modern cruiser Java strained to overtake the De Zeven Provincien, though her 12-inch guns could easily pierce their light armor. "We do not intend violence." plaintively radioed the native mutineers in a message addressed to the World Press. "Our object is protest. No one on board has been harmed...
...brunette; and like the protagonists in Horatio Alger stories, he begins a peasant boy, to rise to great heights. The villain has the miraculous ability of always appearing suddenly at the crucial moment to torment his victims. And there is ever present mysterious music and the clanking of armor...