Word: armorer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...castle in the Ruhr Valley in quivering hypochondria, went to bed in a room overlooking the stables, for he was always stimulated by the smell of horses. His son Fritz, while the German Navy grew like a house afire and the family firm got most of the armor plate orders, went to Capri, founded a mock religious order with gold insignia in the form of projectiles, on his doctor's orders lay on his stomach each day for an hour after lunch. To keep him company, all his male guests lay on their stomachs...
President Benes believes that the "Fascintern" will collapse of its own armor-plated weight. He thinks the job of the democracies is to avoid war at almost any cost until time comes to their side. Eduard Benes is thus an optimist. He refuses to believe that Germany will attack his little State. His optimism he bases on three considerations...
Next product of Poet MacLeish's top-working was a radio-play-poem, The Fall of the City, broadcast in 1937. A radio-studio innovation, it presented Fascism as a spook-in-armor, stalking in on and taking control of a nation paralyzed by inertia, fear and propaganda. Few listeners-in agreed on the poetic merits of what the rather wild air waves had been saying, but most did agree that if Fascism should come to the U. S. it would come as a man, not a spook, agreed also that in The Fall of the City Radio-Play...
...Exchange for five years. ''The terrible thing about the Whitney scandal.'' wrote Financial Editor Leslie Gould of the New York Journal & American, "is . . . that the broker was the White Knight of the financial district. Whitney was Sir Richard when he went into battle in shining armor against the 1929 crash and again when he stood up and defied Washington and the reformers. Now it turns out that this Great White Knight was an optical illusion...
...began in 1891 with English Staffordshire furniture and continued for 47 years to gorge a Gargantuan appetite for possessions. Housed at San Simeon, at Sands Point, L. I., in Manhattan, at St. Donat's and in the Hearst warehouses, his hodgepodge includes thousands of pieces of furniture, tapestries, armor, and hundreds of paintings including a few estimable Bouchers, Van Dycks, Rembrandts. Corrected by precise Agent Parish-Watson last week was the New Yorker's, tale of the palaces stored in The Bronx warehouse. What is actually there is a 12th-Century Spanish monastery, in 10,000 boxes...