Word: armorer
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...where it is spring now and the Gods are smiling on humanity. Dinoysus, sitting at Zeus' table, looks down with special pleasure, for this is the time of the spring festival in his honor. Prancing horses and gleaming cars fill Athens as the rich thunder by in their burnished armor and waving plumes. Merchants and students, soldiers and athletes and maidens tossing flower-petals crowd the streets. The dry air is full of sunshine and the smell of flowers and wine-brimming libations to the god Dionysus...
...since 1929 from New Jersey Zinc Co. Mr. Stone trooped all over the world keeping track of improvements in zinc metallurgy, held eight important patents of his own. As well known to art collectors as to metallurgists, he has one of the world's finest collections of ancient armor and arms, especially Persian, has presented many a treasured piece to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
...turn out is the carrying capacity of any of the three railroads which spur into its West Homestead plant outside Pittsburgh. Castings weighing 165 tons have been poured in its foundries and machined in its shops. One of its prides is a gigantic press built for a Navy armor works that will exert a pressure of 14,000 tons. It has gear nobbing and planing machines for finishing gear wheels up to 17-ft. in diameter...
...last week's ceremony, is proud to be called a blacksmith, but within the past five years he has become one of the best known producers of handwrought metal work in the country, decorating dozens of hotels, churches, country houses, with screens, grilles, gateways, lanterns. Swords and armor are his hobby; in a few respects his reference library is supposed to equal that of the Metropolitan Museum. Not until last August did he have a shop he considered fit to invite his fellow members to, but the spotless, simple grey building to which the armor collectors went last week...
Among relics new and old the armor collectors gathered last week, munching chicken sandwiches and sipping highballs, watched Kenneth Lynch in a dinner-jacket and his craftsmen in leather aprons finish the sword on which they had been working for three days. Moving from one anvil to another (each with a different ring), Kenneth Lynch saw that the blade was drawn, beveled, tempered, burnished; the quillons bent and chased to form a swept hilt and the grip wrapped with steel wire...