Word: armored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...excuse me ... my ticket ... check seat ... oh," he observed without result. But soon a chink appeared in the armor, and several people crowded over to allow him a small seat. Looking about him as much as possible without turning his head and making it obvious, Lucius saw nothing but bottles and girls...
/Judges 9:54 (Abimelech), Judges 16:30 (Samson), / Samuel 31'4-5 (Saul and his armor bearer), // Samuel 17:23 (Ahithophel), I Kings 16:18 (Zimri), // Maccabees 14:41 (Razis), Matthew 27:5 (Judas), Acts 16:27 (the jailer...
David Landon's Six Poems have for the most part neither the virtue of pleasing sound nor coherent sense. One piece, called Heat Lightning begins with the truly incredible line, "The city has a thousand elbows" and goes on to picture men pacing "like armor" with each one carrying a building on his back. The carelessness in this poem is evident to a greater or lesser degree in all of the others. They read as though the poet had chosen his theme, the depiction of a certain impotence, a certain deficiency in communication, and attacked it again and again, rapidly...
There was one chink in Quincy's Puritanical armor, however--a woman. Within a week after he heard Eliza Morton sing songs of Burns, he became secretly engaged to her--an engagement which lasted over two years. Although he took the usual precautions, such as checking upon her family connections and her property, Quincy apparently over-threw all the precepts his mother had instilled in him for love of Miss Morton. He never revealed his engagement to his mother until a few months before the wedding; the ceremony itself took place in New York, far from his Boston home...
...Captioned "Little Roosevelt! ! !-The Grand Old Party Must Be Hard-Up!," the 1884 cartoon by Joseph Keppler shows Republican Bigwigs Frank Hiscock, Chauncey Depew, Horace Porter. Henry Cabot Lodge and Stephen B. Elkins gathered clockwise around Theodore Roosevelt and dressing him in the armor of party leadership...