Word: armor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...laden with three vanloads of baggage, a refrigerator freight car full of choice game. Five Vickers Viking planes equipped with the latest safety gadgets, four dozen or so sleek, new Daimler, Austin and Humber motorcars, a 14-coach, ivory-and-gold train, complete with telephones, offices, kitchens, salons and armor-plate windows had been shipped ahead. The Vanguard herself was tricked out with curtains, carpets, elaborate apartments for the royal travelers, and a special platform on which they could be seen at naval reviews...
Twelve lovely aspirant ingenues clothed themselves in a green cloak of envy at Sanders Theatre yesterday, as Mendy Weisgal '45, 1G of the Vets' Workshop proudly strapped on medieval armor in an attempt to grant George Bernard Shaw's telegraphed desire for a masculine Saint Joan...
...with the work he did for the Government, and dampened rumors that he had been one of the "silent" men behind the creation of the atom bomb by disclosing that his war work had consisted of experiments testing the effects of high pressure on steel used in armor plating. Bridgman deprecated the value of this work and said that it had been discontinued even before...
Next week the heavy oak doors will swing open on the Met's 62nd season. Out front there will be strapless gowns in the boxes, and straphangers in the gallery; backstage there will be extras in armor, seamstresses in a hurry and props in the way. A good many of the fur-wrapped natives in the Diamond Horseshoe will be there under the same grim or triumphal compulsion that gets them to church once a year for Easter services. A good many of the gallerygoers will clump up 119 steps like pious martyrs, sure that they are the only...
...Rotund, romantic Lieut. Henri-Marie Beyle-who had never ridden a horse or seen a battle-hoisted his huge rump into the saddle and galloped off to war. His armor included two pistols, a large saber and the works of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Racine and Moliere...