Word: sword
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dean, arms curator of the Metropolitan Museum. Now numbering 50 men, probably its best known member is Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Hungerford Mackay who owns one of the finest private collections of armor in the world. The members are scholars who have written learned papers on almost everything from Japanese sword-guards to lobster-tailed helmets...
Among relics new and old the armor collectors gathered last week, munching chicken sandwiches and sipping highballs, watched Kenneth Lynch in a dinner-jacket and his craftsmen in leather aprons finish the sword on which they had been working for three days. Moving from one anvil to another (each with a different ring), Kenneth Lynch saw that the blade was drawn, beveled, tempered, burnished; the quillons bent and chased to form a swept hilt and the grip wrapped with steel wire...
...ardent music lover, Blacksmith Lynch was also hard at work on another sword to present to Tenor Lauritz Melchior for his 100th performance as Siegfried this week...
...king of Seriphus, who coveted his mother and would be rid of the son, sent him off to bring back the head of the Gorgon Medusa whose glance turned men to stone. With winged sandals given by the Nymphs, the helmet of Hades which made him invisible, and the sword of Hermes, Perseus watched Medusa's reflection in Athena's shield, cut off the head, returned to Seriphus to rescue his mother by exposing the petrifying head to the eyes of the king and all his court...
...Paraphrasing Henry Morley, for purposes of ambition living men may be blown asunder at the cannon's mouth, cut up with sword or ax, or probed with military lances, but no rational disposition may be made of dead...