Word: armorer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like most men who lead violent lives, Morosini's artistic taste was that of a bright 15-year-old boy. He loved to play soldier. Besides his valuable armor, Elmhurst was littered with Napoleonic shakos, sword belts, sashes, gold epaulets, bits of uniform. In last week's sale were a dozen battle scenes painted with iron hard detail and Noah's Ark color by 19th Century followers of Meissonier and Detaille: cavalry charges, artillery duels, the Battle of Wagram, Franco-Prussian war scenes, Renaissance gallants dueling, George III in full coronation robes, Louis XIV taking...
...treasures. In her last years she became a recluse, kept Elmhurst locked to all but a few intimates though she was always extremely generous to charities. Last February she died, leaving ample bequests to her brothers & sisters and a dozen institutions, and the pick of her father's armor collection to the Metropolitan Museum. To settle the residue of the estate, one auction of furniture and household effects was held at Elmhurst last spring. There was still enough left to keep auctioneers busy for six days last week. All Miss Giulia's jewelry was sold with the rest...
...vast United States of Brazil (larger than the 48 United States) the major civil war in which nearly 100,000 Brazilians are engaged (TIME. Aug. 8, 15) dragged on and on. At Pittsburgh, Pa. five Cadillac eights were being armor plated by Armstrong Motor Body Co. "for a South American president" who is having the Cadillacs equipped to spray tear gas and machine gun bullets...
Kerr Rainsford, whose hobbies are collecting armor and singing Christmas...
...celebrate the 25th year of his accession to the throne the Maharaja Jamsaheb of Nawanagar, Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes and champion cricketer of India, gave his weight in silver to the poor of his realm. Dressed in full ancestral armor and anointed with sacred water from the Himalayas, the Jamsaheb weighed in at 174 Ib. After the silver distribution, 20,000 poor were...