Word: armorer
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...statue is a group by Malvina Hoffmann, symbolizing the sacrifice of men and women for an ideal, and the central figure is a hooded woman mourning over the dead body of a crusader of the 13th century in full armor. The statue has gained considerable favorable criticism. Th New York Times says that the features of the warrior, frozen in death, wear the austerity typical of a grave and positive century in which fainting under grief or danger was incredible", and that the work shows "a patience and feeling for perfection in craftsmanship". It goes on to say that "technically...
...typically French sense of the fitness of things that is to place one of these battered vehicles on exhibition in the Invalides, where are France's great military relies of the centuries. There its two cylinders will come to rest amid the armor of kings and banners of Napoleon. Upon a tablet will read the words of one of these chauffeurs spoken to Gallient on that memorable September 7, 1914: "One must do as one's comrades do: one must go where it is necessary." After all, neither Roland, nor Bayard, nor Henry of Navarre, nor Guynemer did more...
...Bashford Dean will lecture today under the auspices of the Fogg Art Museum on "The Art of the Armorer" in the Lecture Room of the museum at 4.30 o'clock. His second address, tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 o'clock, will be at the Union, also under the auspices of the Fogg Museum on "The Making and Wearing of Armor". The second lecture will be illustrated with moving pictures...
...Dean has devoted his life to the study of arms and armor. Since 1903 he has been Curator of Arms and Armor at the Metropolitan Museum of New York which has published several of his works on the subject, chief of which is "Notes on Arms and Armor...
...second lecture, "The Making and Wearing of Armor", will be given on Wednesday afternoon, November 1, at 4.30 at the Harvard Union, under the auspices of the Fogg Museum. This lecture will be illustrated with moving pictures...