Word: helmet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is one war Britain is ready to fight today at the drop of a German helmet, according to idealistic young Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, fresh last week from vacationing at Monte Carlo. Some of his friends keep telling him there would have been no World War if in 1914 his predecessor as Foreign Secretary, the late Sir Edward Grey, had told the Kaiser what Mr. Eden is always telling Der Führer and told him again last week in the House of Commons, namely: "Our arms might and would, if occasion arose, be used in defense of France...
...Beechcraft C17R ($14,500), Stinson Reliant ($7,985), Waco ($5,395), Luscombe ($5,500), Monocoupe ($3,825), Argonaut ($5.450), Fairchild 24 ($5,590), stainless steel Fleetwing ($18,500), each with room for several passengers in luxurious automobile-like cabins. Great majority were cabin monoplanes. Gone forever are goggles and helmet...
...gave a lecture on art in London, stomped down the aisle to the dais wearing a deep-sea diving suit, a jeweled dagger at his belt (carrying a billiard cue in one hand and leading a pair of Russian wolfhounds with the other). Nearly overcome by heat before the helmet could be unscrewed, he explained: "I just wanted to show that I was plunging deeply into the human mind...
Back in the Attic on his desk the Vagabond has memorandum for a really big day tomorrow. Tomorrow the Vagabond puts on his seven-league boots and winged helmet and does a superhuman job of Vagabonding. At nine he listens to Crane Brinton, Harvard 5, on "Rousseau." At ten to Professor Nolte, Sever 7, on "The Age of Enlightenment". At eleven to Professor Arthur J. Nock, Harvard 2, in History of Religions 1, on "Zoroaster". A well balanced metaphysical diet...
...that U. S. drivers would be outclassed. Fastest qualifying time was made by nervous little Roman-nosed Tazio Nuvolari, who has won 87 out of the 153 races he has entered and is currently considered Europe's best driver. In a bright red Alfa-Romeo, wearing a white helmet, yellow sweater and blue denim pants, Nuvolari took the lead on the first lap. Close behind, in identical Alfa-Romeos, came his two countrymen, Count Brivio and Dr. Giuseppe Farina. After the first few laps the crack-ups and collisions which the crowd had come to see showed no signs...