Word: helmeted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frank P. Blair, Chicago diver, last week adjusted his helmet, slowly submerged himself in Lake Michigan. With careful, heavy movements he prowled around the bottom, searched through jumbled cans, tires, bottles. Diver Blair is a good searcher. He it was who recovered from the muddy Jackson Park Lagoon the typewriter which helped incriminate Murderers Leopold and Loeb in 1924. When he emerged last week, he brought up two heavy objects. They were counterfeit seals of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University...
...Steel Helmet Society and other monarchistic and militaristic organizations staged a pompous demonstration in the Berlin Stadium with much goose-stepping and waving of old Imperial flags. More spontaneous, more impressive was a student riot on Unter den Linden where 1,000 students sang Deutschland Uber Alles, shouted "Down with the Schweinische Republik," and attempted to serenade President von Hindenburg. The police, mindful of Bloody May Day (TIME, May 13), were careful not to shoot but wielded their heavy rubber clubs vigorously...
...From helmet down...
...difficulty in finding anyone who can explain the hidden symbolism of the paintings prevents perhaps any indefensible comment upon the emotional result of careful attention to these decorations. The fact, however, that the recumbent figure in the left hand picture wears a helmet strikingly like that of a German infantryman and that standing over him there is an obvious Yankee doughboy clutching Victory and Death lends color to the theory that the natural effect should be one of intense sympathy for the American and something very like hatred for his slayer...
...upon the field of the naval air station at Washington, D. C. Forty gallons of gasoline were in its tank. In the cockpit was no Icarus. Instead was an Apollo wearing no triple woolen under wear ? merely ordinary clothing cased ty a furlined flying suit, sheepskin boots, fur helmet, fur mittens, a mask with an oxy gen tube (his nostrils were plugged so that he must breathe through his mouth) and a pair of goggles with tiny holes in them so that he might see when they be came frosted. He was Lieut. Apollo Soucek...