Word: cyclopean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From grave, Cyclopean Lord Nelson, perched on his column in Trafalgar Square, to Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, London is full of statuary. Possibly no statues in the whole murky city are better known or more consistently photographed than the two living statues that guard Britain's War Office-the living mounted sentries of the Horse Guards. Splendid, remote and eternal, they stand in their little sentry boxes: two coal-black horses, currycombed to satin smoothness; two six-foot troopers in jackboots, silver breastplates, plumed helmets. Not even when irreverent trippers tempt the chargers with raw carrots, or drop...
...cyclopean shirt, large enough to fit such a man as "Strangler Lewis," the wrestler, has been placed on exhibition in the display window of James W. Brine's athletic goods store at 1410 Massachusetts Avenue...