Word: helmets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most startling work in the group, apart from aesthetic considerations, is his pen drawing, "The White General," dated 1919. Standing against a background of human misery and brutality, is an exact representation of the Nazi of World War H--complete with Storm Trooper helmet and swastika insignia. Grosz saw things very clearly 30 years...
...keep the roof from caving in when a car overturns. Except for the windshield, there is no glass in the form of windows or headlights which might shatter in case of collision. The driver is equipped with an aviation-type safety belt and a football headgear or crash helmet...
...Manhattan apartment early one morning last week, Industrial Designer Raymond Loewy awoke with a start. As he flipped a bedside switch, soft indirect light spread over walls made of egg-crate fiber and over a group of improbable furnishings− a Tahitian drum, Congo ceremonial sword, Chinese helmet, Moroccan fly-switch, Senegalese war hatchet and grotesque Zulu masks. Loewy, who gets some of his best ideas in bed (and no nightmares from the masks), reached for the ever-present memo pad beside his pillow and scribbled a cryptic note: Why not a suction cap for shaving-cream tubes...
...fullback Carey with what amounted to his face, and Carey's cleats broke his nose. But a specialist was called out of the stands, and set the bone in the record time of four minutes, just about as fast as it took to hook a nose guard onto his helmet. He played the rest of the game...
Gleam of Brass. He mounted an unshaded wooden reviewing stand and 20,000 men, led by the famed 82nd Airborne Division's band, poured past in his honor. They marched in ranks of twelve, brass and helmet liners gleaming, brand new company guidons bright in the hot sunlight. Behind them rumbled their tanks, guns and trucks...