Word: umbrella
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...umbrella which can be strapped to the head, leaving both hands free...
...Umbrella...
...Taranto, Italy, 28-year-old Battista Rocca walked out to take the air on the town's main street. Promenader Rocca had a furled umbrella crooked over his arm, and not a stitch besides. To the horrified policemen who arrested him, he explained with dignity: "I'm Mr. Chamberlain...
...Chamberlain has come to regard his gamp as a necessary part of his journeys abroad and last week, before pursuing "appeasement" to Rome, he told friends the story of an old lady with an umbrella, who, pursued by a lion, suddenly turned, unfurled her weapon and scared the beast away. Concluded Mr. Chamberlain: "And I am taking my umbrella to Rome...
...Chamberlain had a chance to unfurl his umbrella but once-during a thunderstorm, which Rome wisecrackers said had been ordered by God to show that the rolled umbrella really opened. While he certainly did not scare II Duce with it, on this appeasement trip, at any rate, Mr. Chamberlain was not scared into giving anything away. Nothing good went Italy's way and nothing bad went Britain's. In this way Britain came off with a sort of negative triumph...