Word: helmeted
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Onetime Senator James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. of New York was the plume in the Wet Athene's helmet last week. He cried: "Senator Fess . . . cannot see what is going on in this country. Tears dim his sight. . . . Does the Senator think we can carry Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois and a half-dozen other States whose people spoke last week on this question . . . [and] hope to cajole repeal-Republicans, millions of good men & women, into an attitude of complacency concerning the thing they regard as vital...
...AFTER VICTORY, STRAP YOUR HELMET TIGHTER...
...dander of Old Paul had been rising for several days. In the first place the President of Germany, who is Honorary President of the patriotic but illegal Stahlhelm ("Steel Helmet") military organization, had quarreled on Stahlhelm's behalf with the Government of Prussia...
...came marching home. Sly subterfuges were resorted to by the excited ladies on the Acropolis. Myrrhina remembered that she really should go home to lay a new spread on the bed, to which Miss Bainter scornfully replied: "You want to lay something else on the bed!" Kalonika stole the helmet from Athena's head, concealing it beneath her gown. Miss Bainter: "Why, Kalonika, you weren't pregnant last night." Miss Hopkins: "But I didn't know it last night!" Indicative of the plight of the men was the piteous condition of Kinesias (Ernest Truex). He fidgeted, pranced...
...trustees of the Metropolitan persuaded him to accept a salary for his work as curator of armor, but until his retirement in 1927 he made it a point of honor to present the museum every year with a piece of armor, a sword, or a helmet nearly as valuable as his total stipend. In 20 years he visited every important armory in the world, scoured every quarter of the globe for ancient weapons...