Word: armoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inside the Chateau de Bessinge self-styled "Delegate" Stimson made himself at home in Louis XVI salons set out with slightly rusty suits of armor suggesting a museum. All the Louis XVI furniture, according to a spokesman for the Swiss real estate agent who leased the Chateau de Bessinge is upholstered in genuine Gobelin tapestry...
...became Eagle Pencil Co. It makes fountain pens, has the largest timber reserves of any U. S. pencil company, boasts of having invented the inserted eraser and indelible pencil. It is run by the three great-grandsons of Founder Daniel Berolzheimer. President Edwin, redheaded, mustached, a collector of armor, lately said: "I'm the most active but I am not so active either...
...Stanze rejoicing in his youth and virile beauty. The tilt of the noble head, the pride of race stamped on the curling lips and firm-set jaw make this not only the portrait of a Medici but of the whole class of cultured despots. The delicate handling of the armor contrasts with and accentuates the direct, almost impressionistic modelling of the head. Versatility, even in an age of giants, is always amazing, and so it seems almost incredible that the same hand turned out the reguish putto who cavorts in the centre of the room in much the same pose...
...Howard Hughes), which was vigorously censored before release, emerges as a not particularly happy Wartime farce in which Chester Morris, as a scatter-brained aviator, jokes with, flies with, drinks with, wrestles with and finally suggests matrimony with Billie Dove, as a Parisian actress, whose costume armor is heard clanking to the floor at the end of the picture. Typical shot: Chester Morris squirting seltzer at Billie Dove when she slaps him for an improper proposal...
...there is plenty of undergraduate funny business and a fake horse that turns around once to display a sign: I WILL SHARE. Young Marshall Dana learned during the summer how a ham Shakespearean trouper should act, and that is the way he plays Don Quixote, complete with suit of armor and greying spade beard. J. N. Foran ably sings an ably written tune, "No More Happiness." D. S. McMillan is a creditable heroine. Notably missing from this year's production is blond, birdlike, ballet-dancing Harry Dunham of last year's show?much to the relief of those graduates...