Word: helmeters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like the cab horse, the absolute monarch and the beehive police helmet, the sailing ship is rapidly fading from human sight. Many a sailor, professional and amateur, is sorry. But that nostalgic sorrow might well be mitigated by such a superb record of the sailing ship's passing as this book of Sailor-Author Villiers...
...TIME, Dec. 3), Don Quixote is at its best when it is purely pictorial-the brilliant whites and gloomy greys of Spain; the noble nose, the gaunt cheek, the scraggly whiskers of the Don whose addled pate wears a barber's lather-bowl which he thinks is a helmet; the whirling windmills seen from a dozen different angles after the poor Don is impaled on one of them by his own spear. Notable is the picture's end. Off-screen Chaliapin sings morosely, while the camera catches pattern after pattern in the twisting, writhing pages of his burning...
...world's airplane altitude record of 47,352 ft. held by Italy's Renato Donati. Because of the thin air and -70° temperature of the stratozone, Pilot Post had encased himself in a grotesque suit made of white asbestos. Topping it was a big metal helmet with one panel of thick glass. Inside this airtight, electrically heated outfit, oxygen was fed under pressure to chubby, tousle-haired Pilot Post. On his first flight Post got lost, had trouble with his oxygen valve, spent some bad moments in fear he might literally blow up. On the second...
...Painted Veil (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When Dr. Walter Fane (Herbert Marshall) goes to the door of his wife's bedroom in Hongkong, he finds it locked. On the hall table lies a polo helmet. From these two facts he knows that his Katrin (Greta Garbo) is sinning with a cool young legation attaché (George Brent). At dinner that night, Dr. Fane presents Katrin with a choice: she will leave with him for Mei-tan-fu, where cholera is epidemic, or she will marry the attach...
...lion cub which flew everywhere with him and helped to get his picture in the papers. Better known than this pet is the Turner uniform-robin's-egg-blue tunic, faun-colored whipcord breeches, Sam Browne belt, black riding boots and a gold-and-crimson flying helmet...