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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...
President Hoover, who rarely quotes his elders, last week went back a century to borrow an oratorical sword with which to stand off the American Legion on the Soldier Bonus. The weapon had been fashioned by Daniel Webster, mighty verbal swordsman, at a Whig reception at Niblo's Garden, Manhattan, in 1837. Unearthed by French Strother, White House research secretary, it was still so pat and pointed that President Hoover grasped its hilt and made it flash and glitter in a statement explaining why the U. S. could neither tax nor borrow two billions out of its people...
...Three horizontal stripes (green, white, pink), the centre embellished with a blazing sun, in front of which a lion stands on three paws, brandishing a sword with its right forepaw and lashing its tail...
...marriage, the prince has his sister get a sorcerer's potion (goona-goona) and give it to the coolie girl in a dish of rice. He has the husband sent away and has his will with the drugged wife, leaving his royal hereditary kriss (jeweled, big-handled-sword) behind. The husband finds it, kills the prince, is himself killed...
...lance. Next, four pairs of banderillas (barbed wooden shafts) are stuck into the top of the bull's neck by the banderilleros or, with musical accompaniment, by the matador himself. Then the matador takes the bull alone, plays him with the muleta (red cloth), kills him with a sword. If the crowd approves a matador and his suertes (manoeuvres), there are rhythmic chants of "Olé! Olé!" A bad performance brings a shower of cushions and curses. Says Hemingway: "Now the essence of the greatest emotional appeal of bullfighting is the feeling of immortality that the bullfighter feels in the middle...