Word: parasol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relics were excavated in back of the present Harvard Hall. Among them are bricks of odd shapes, one of them an oval ornament for a window, a run flint, the bone handle of a lady's parasol, a broken barometer, and fragments of the long clay pipes that were in vogue in the heyday of the old building...
...could wheedle from the late eccentric Baron Michelham in the interest of the estranged Baroness, Aimee Geraldine, nee Bradshaw. Today Captain Cohn, a fat, unctuous personage with a great mane of blond hair, is to be seen, sleekly appareled and carrying a lady's parasol to shield his eyes, at every major race meeting in Europe. Frequently, very frequently, his horses win. His Sir Galahad distanced Epinard in a match race for private stakes...
...childhood. With him came Bayard Van Schoeck, friendly patrician. Alan's reawakened passion frightened Julie. She found protection in the steady strength of Van Schoeck. The climax came in a meeting between Alan and her father. Sparks flew. The old man hit the boy with her parasol, then collapsed under stress of emotion...
...Harding gave candy and gum to all the children who came within reach, and seriously depleted the stock on the train. At Seymour, Ind., she said to a woman: " I like your parasol...
...evening began on the waxed floor after the final curtain had rung down. The play itself was pitifully colorless: an unmitigated burlesque from its slap-stick dialogue to the heavyweight wrestler who, resplendent in pink tights and a blonde wig, tripped coyly around an umbrela, designed as a parasol, and sang about the pattering raindrops, as a member of the pony chorus. The loyal alumni were sorely tried, and equally disgusted, but the house was still packed and applauded faithfully. The War was an undisguised blessing...