Word: pelted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Napoleon's dragoons have gone, but their artistic temperament has lived on to find a re-opening in the spirit of the fighting diners of Memorial. Napoleon's men pelted "The Last Supper" with brickbats; their successors have used potatoes and biscuits, usually softer but no less dangerous missiles, to pelt the pictures that line the walls of Memorial Hall. Napoleon's men probably did not know that in "The Last Supper" Leonardo da Vinci had done a world masterpiece; our fighting contemporaries probably do not appreciate the fact that Memorial contains pictures of great value from the hands...