Word: umbrella
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While cameramen chorused, "Just one more, Sir Ronald!" he posed for an instant, cheerfully waggling his umbrella. "You all know why I am here," he said, then popped inside for a 45-minute conference with his diplomatic chief, Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon. When the two emerged together tall Sir John, who was hatless, seemed dwarfed by taller Sir Ronald Lindsay, Ambassador to the U. S. of His Majesty King George. Chatting with animation, Sir John and Sir Ronald crossed to No. 10 Downing St. In the white and gold Cabinet Room they were greeted by Prime Minister James Ramsay...
...attended the San Francisco convention of the National Woman's Party. She went abroad to see Christabel Pankhurst, who would gladly break an umbrella over a constable's head if it would help her get a vote. In the U. S., Mrs. Belmont's fight for equal suffrage took place on many fronts. She badgered Congressmen. She wrote a propagandist operetta which was produced at the old Waldorf in 1916 with Marie Dressier in the cast. Just as she had nudged Mrs. Astor out of Manhattan's social leadership, so did she outstrip Carrie Chapman Catt...
...REEDER RETURNS?Edgar Wallace ?Crime Club ($2). The old mitten-shooting, umbrella-carrying Mr. Reeder, posthumously directed through four more adventures...
...money to pay his hotel bills, so he would throw his mattress out the window before the proprietor was up in the morning, jump for it and disappear. He was arrested once at a bullfight for squeezing the juice of an orange at a fellow spectator who held his umbrella in the way. He still cannot resist frightening women by suddenly snorting at them like a horse...
...manufactures gas meters and stands for no nonsense. He had a chance last week to sell his meters to the municipality of Brighton, famed seaside resort. John Guthrie Sutherland packed his brief case, put on his hat and went down to see about it. He also took his "brolly" (umbrella), an object without which no Briton ever feels comfortable...