Word: umbrella
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Testament into journalese. There the peppery, dogmatic rector of old Christ Church, 77-year-old Rev. Louis Cope Washburn, preached his retiring sermon last January with a bandage about his head, result of an encounter in which he bested a footpad with his umbrella. Episcopal Rev. Dr. David McConnell Steele believes that Lent is a bore (TIME, March 30, 1936), Rev. "Jack" Hart this summer founded the Episcopal Anti-Mothball Society (TIME, July 12), "Rev." Mary Hubbert Ellis scuttles about looking for nude statues to cover up, and Rev. Dr. George Chalmers Richmond broods in a Philadelphia suburb over...
Every morning for 50 years Roland M. Smythe entered his musty office at No. 2 Broadway, hung his umbrella on the hatrack, opened the hatbox on his big roller desk and placed his hat therein, brim up. It served as a basket for important papers...
Squatting on a sand-bin in Whitehall, a 62-year-old Mrs. Heggs from the Isle of Wight sheltered her sandwiches, cigarets and a bottle of wine under her umbrella and declared: "I'm used to these all-night waits. I sat up for 24 hours to watch his father's Silver Jubilee procession. I claim to be the first arrival on the Coronation procession route...
...outset, the Sixth Massachusetts Infantry, chased through Baltimore by Southern-sympathizing rioters, was saved by heroic Mayor George William Brown, who brandished his umbrella at the mobsters, and 50 policemen who overawed the crowd with their drawn revolvers. Fifteen citizens and soldiers were killed that day. Next thing Baltimore knew, Federal guns were staring from Federal Hill, and the city was under the thumb of officious, punch-drunk General Benjamin ("Beast") Butler. A warm Southern sympathizer and States' rights man. Publisher Abell had his choice of keeping editorially mum or being deprived of his newspaper, thrown in jail...
Helped by a crook named Petty Louie (Hobart Cavanaugh), he enters a jewelry store, heaps all the clocks in one corner, then lets the burglar alarm function. When the Ranger guards arrive, the clocks are all crying "Cuckoo!" Next Mallory opens all the umbrellas in an umbrella shop, does similar whimsies in a dozen other Ranger-guarded stores. Nowhere does he steal anything, but always leaves a note signed "Night Key," reading: "What I create I can destroy." These extraordinary pranks draw the attention of gangsters who kidnap the old man, use his device for stealing. With the help...