Word: umbrella
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such patents as these: Balloon Propelled by Eagles, Vultures, Condors. The birds wore harnesses which could be pulled in any direction by the operator. Birds had "merely to fly." They could also be pointed up or down. The drawing for the patent showed a balloon like a big inverted umbrella, with a bird cage mushrooming above...
...With an umbrella, two walking sticks and an escort of 15 newshawks, Novelist Herbert George Wells strode up & down the deck of the Bremen as she steamed into New York Harbor. "Did you know that Rasputin's daughter is on the boat?" asked a newshawk. Mr. Wells did not, wished he had. Off to the lounge scurried the newshawks to tell Maria Gregorievna Rasputin Solovief of the great man's disappointment. Said she, in German: "I am so sorry ... er ... who is he?" The daughter of Russia's "Mad Monk" Gregory Rasputin...
...thing I want to ask you," said Prince Sukhodaya with the pent up emotion of one who has been King for ten long years, "in what you are writing about me, please do not talk about the 'brother of the moon' or the 'twenty-four umbrellas.' I am not the moon's brother. That is all bunk. There is a nine-tiered umbrella in our Siamese ritual, but I have no idea who invented the titles usually ascribed to me. . . . I like the English countryside. The Queen and I have done a lot of motoring...
...Francisco, Switchman Alex J. Haskins sued and won $25,000 from Southern Pacific Railroad because, when he jumped into a patch of umbrella plant as a train approached, the plant sucked in one of his legs, toppled him under the train...
Most curious shot: a Union official holding an umbrella over Mary Surratt to keep the sun off her face as she waits on the gallows to be hanged (July 7, 1865) for Lincoln's assassination...