Word: armors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obvious discomfort of Edward, but to the delight of all others, Mr. Harvey drew a comparison between the Prince who fought in France clad in black armor and the Prince who fought there in khaki; from that he proceeded to eulogize him as " the White Prince...
Swords and daggers from Spain and Italy, Indian and Indo-Persian weapons and armor; primitive arms from Africa, Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; powder horns, helmets and halberds; wheelock guns and Near Eastern swords; daggers and sabers; Venetian rapiers, make up a collection of arms and armor formed in Austria and now in the Anderson galleries. Some of it belonged to the Archduke Charles...
...filibuster." Any senator can speak on any subject at any time at any length; nothing can stop him but physical exhaustion. Friends and foes of the measure regard a filibuster as a sporting proposition. The object of the supporting side is to find a strategic error in the vocal armor of the filibusterers and obtain the floor to bring the measure to a vote. That happened several years ago to Senator LaFollette, who, after talking 18 hours, lost the floor and saw the bill passed in five minutes...
...statue is a group by Malvina Hoffmann, symbolizing the sacrifice of men and women for an ideal, and the central figure is a hooded woman mourning over the dead body of a crusader of the 13th century in full armor. The statue has gained considerable favorable criticism. Th New York Times says that the features of the warrior, frozen in death, wear the austerity typical of a grave and positive century in which fainting under grief or danger was incredible", and that the work shows "a patience and feeling for perfection in craftsmanship". It goes on to say that "technically...
...typically French sense of the fitness of things that is to place one of these battered vehicles on exhibition in the Invalides, where are France's great military relies of the centuries. There its two cylinders will come to rest amid the armor of kings and banners of Napoleon. Upon a tablet will read the words of one of these chauffeurs spoken to Gallient on that memorable September 7, 1914: "One must do as one's comrades do: one must go where it is necessary." After all, neither Roland, nor Bayard, nor Henry of Navarre, nor Guynemer did more...