Word: impedimenta
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...unknown Austrian artist, visitors could find a cubistic treatment of planes; in a fantasy by the Flemish painter Pietr Huys, Carnival Scene, were strange suspensions of rods and dangling objects like the "mobiles" of U. S. Artist Alexander Calder. Two duelists on skates approach each other with impedimenta as weird as the White Knight's. One of them grins from within a birdcage-topped barrel, while the other, armed with poker & tongs, crouches under the carapace of a sheep-skull. A bored hermit reclining in the background is ostentatiously not interested...
...versatile Hammers. They were forbidden to export their rubles, but they might buy with their profits antique furniture, jewels, paintings, etc. There soon appeared in Manhattan a swank emporium known as the Hammer Galleries, its showcases filled with Sevres vases, jeweled Easter eggs, enameled cups and other bourgeois impedimenta of Tsarist nobility. Knowing the political sympathies of its likeliest customer, the Hammer Galleries plasters its walls with double eagles and other imperial symbols...
...afternoon there was a Sea Scout regatta, one evening a fireworks display. But more fascinating than spectacles, drills or speeches by oldsters about Scout ideals was the extracurricular activity in which all 25,000 assiduously engaged-swapping. To Washington they had brought a strange assortment of impedimenta: wampum, pine cones, stuffed birds, sharks teeth, shells, sponges, live hoot owls, pickled scorpions. Texans (dressed in chaps) brought a large consignment of live horned toads. West Virginians brought hunks of coal shellacked for paperweights. Californians brought 20-ft. strips of movie film. With these trade goods, the young merchants wandered around...
...provided by the U. S. In the winter of 1884-85 the base was less than half built and funds were completely exhausted. To the rescue came exuberant Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World. With screaming editorials, cartoons, prize contests, fancy dress balls, all the impedimenta of modern publicity, Publisher Pulitzer had the $100,000 necessary to finish Liberty's pedestal oversubscribed in less than six months...
...Harold Lloyd, Weber & Fields, Lew Cody, Louise Fazenda, Bebe Daniels, Buster Keaton, Hal Roach, many another. It was Mack Sennett who imported Charlie Chaplin, overcame his disastrous first appearance by changing his make-up and costume. With a boilermaker's education, habits and vocabulary. Sennett distrusted such academic impedimenta as written scripts, insisted on his authors telling him their stories verbally. The post-War years 1924-26 were golden harvests for Mack Sennett. Then came the talkies and Sennett slapstick began to fade from public favor. The finishing touch was given by Walt Disney's ubiquitous Mickey Mouse...