Word: armor
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...late Coach Fred Mitchell has been making catchers out of every unoccupied stringer on the Varsity baseball squad. The other day he told large Al Berry, "from Baltimore, suh," to get behind the plate. When Al came walking out in his armor the squad was definitely skeptical. Charlie Nevin's remark was "Well, Al, just keep your hands in your pockets and your eyes closed and nothing will happen...
Died. Robert William Chambers, 68, novelist, painter, angler, hunter, collector of butterflies, armor and Japanese art; after an intestinal operation; in Manhattan. Son of a Brooklyn jurist, he studied art in Paris, drew sketches for Life, Vogue, began to write. Critics, impressed by The King in Yellow, his second book, were disappointed when he began turning out two perfumed and aseptic romances a year. (Total production: 60 novels.) "Literature! The word makes me sick!" he snorted. His painstaking historical research was largely lost on his millions of readers (Ashes of Empire, Cardigan). He was the first U. S. author...
...Admiral William Veazie Pratt, naval adviser at the 1930 London Conference, who called some of them "tin clad" because their gun turrets were not fully protected with steel plates. But Rear Admiral Joseph K. Taussig, assistant chief of operations, last week explained that the Chicago's turrets were armored and had helped prevent the Chicago's prow from being cut clean off. "Not even a battleship has armor where the Chicago was struck, and would have experienced a similar result," he declared...
British aircraftmen rained live bombs last week on a "human target," an armor-plated motorboat trickily steered by its inventor Aircraftman Shaw, once famed as Col. T. E. (Revolt in the Desert) Lawrence...
...Critic John Ruskin put his seal of approval on them, and the Pre-Raphaelites were made. From Oxford came Edward Coley Burne-Jones and William Morris to follow the new star. Morris was so enchanted with medievalism that he got an Oxford blacksmith to forge him a suit of armor. When he lowered the helmet's visor it stuck and he had to be extricated; but the coat of mail he wore the whole day and would not even take it off for dinner. The Brotherhood's enthusiasm was sometimes greater than their thoroughness. Commissioned by Ruskin...