Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start July 1 in Rome on a $4, 000,000-to-$5,000,000 budget, a whopper for an economy-minded industry. Already shipped from Hollywood were 125 of 150 scheduled tons of equipment, including giant generators to feed the Technicolor arc lamps. Planes had flown eight tons of armor, enough to gird a Roman army of 2,500. On Manhattan's Times Square, a huge sign ballyhooing the picture was up in "fade-proof" paint...
...which the springs of life dried. In painting Mr. Eliot it has been my endeavor to convey . . . some vestige of all that. So you will see in his mask, drained of too hearty blood, a gazing strain, a patient contraction, the body slightly tilted (in the immaculate armor of sartorial convention) in resigned anticipation of the worst...
Next day, De Chirico's own paintings came in for some hard words. "The new De Chirico," said the Manchester Guardian, "is evidently a great admirer of Rubens. The knights in armor, the nudes and most of the landscape backgrounds appear to derive from that artist . . . but the overemphatic drawing, the heavy black shadows, the rather meaningless color are very different...
...first beauty contest, in which Paris, after some difficulty, decided in favor of Venus, bristled with Gothic touches. Cranach had presented fast-stepping Mercury with an iron-grey beard, a studious look and a crystal ball instead of a golden apple. He had dressed Paris in the ponderous armor and plumed hat of a German prince, gave him an insufferably arrogant and calculating...
Wooden Guns. Exact figures on Europe's military establishment were technically secret. But it was no secret to anyone that the Western European powers between them could put no more than a dozen poorly equipped, poorly organized combat divisions into the field, virtually bare of armor and effective air support...