Word: helmeters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ocean's bed through glass-bottomed buckets or make their sketches and paintings on dry land after exploring in diving suits. But not Chris Emile Olsen. In a one-piece bathing suit and crepe-soled tennis shoes Artist Olsen slips into the water. A 65-pound metal helmet is placed over his head and shoulders, attached to an air pump on board ship. He goes down 20 to 35 ft., takes with him a Monel steel tripod, easel, and palette spread with regular oil colors. He paints on 8 by 10 in. glass plates covered on both sides with...
...clock guns boomed in the distance, followed by the dull patter of muffled drums.* A detachment of mounted police in blue capes and white helmets led the procession. Then came the Guides, Belgium's crack infantry regiment, with little tassels dangling from their caps. British sailors followed, and behind them a dismounted detachment of the 5th Inniskilling Dragoons, the British regiment of which Albert was Colonel-in-Chief. French troops preceded the Paris post of the American Legion. The flags of the Belgian Army formed a quilt of fluttering black, yellow and red against the grey sky. Every regiment...
...great London fires for the past ten years, Londoners have seen inside the fire lines a tall, hearty figure in the black helmet and blue uniform of the Salvage Corps. He was Captain Brymore Eric Miles, chief of the insurance companies' special force to keep down unnecessary damage by fire & water. On his hefty chest glittered a row of medals, including the Military Cross and the Stars of Mons...
During the Army-Navy football game of 1894, the midshipmen set up a wild shout when a Navy player wearing a football helmet trotted out on the field and took his place in the line. In those days football players wore neither numbers nor helmets. So from his conical headgear the midshipmen knew who the player was and that his skull had been injured earlier in the year. "Reeves!" they shouted, "Bull Reeves!" And when Navy won (6-4), the midshipmen gave"Bull" Reeves credit for having saved the game...
...John Daniel Hertz is keen, amiable, modest but, in a business tussle, a ferocious fighter. It bothers him not a whit that on a polo field in his heavy tortoise-shell spectacles, with his helmet snugly strapped under his big chin, and seated in a curious grey, woolly saddle, he cuts a strange figure. When he misses a shot, which is often, he always shouts...