Word: umbrellaism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...E.D.T., replacing Caesar's Hour), an erratic, off-beat comedy hour during which Kovacs may become Pierre Ragout, French raconteur; Uncle Gruesome, specialist in bedtime stories for morbid children; or J. Walter Puppybreath, maker of untenable aphorisms. He may appear inside a bottle holding up an umbrella as rain pours in until he is completely submerged, or try to sell viewers on Lost beer, a nonexistent beverage, exhorting them to "Get Lost...
...spoken once the robbery is under way. Moving into an apartment above the store, they bind and gag the concierge and his wife, roll back the living-room rug and begin cutting through the concrete floor. When the hole is the width of a man's wrist, an umbrella is lowered through it and opened to catch the fragments of plaster as the gap is widened. Once in the store, the alarm is swiftly disconnected, the safe opened with an electric drill, and the loot removed. The entire operation simulates major surgery: there is the same mute reaching...
...West African Negro who has become a British government clerk and yearns to be a full-fledged, "civilized," Christian Briton. But, even in his bumbling and his guile, the sunny-natured, light-fingered, childlike clerk is miles from his models. An orphan of two cultures, he carries a furled umbrella while walking barefoot, with his patent leather pumps hanging about his neck...
...much of a mystery after the first chapters, but it is notable for an unusual hero and some fascinating details about the unpleasant profession of burking.* B. G. Brooks is a mild-mannered little investigator for a trade association of cemetery owners. He always carries an umbrella, lets off steam by exclaiming "Gracious, me!" and "Oh, dear!" but is a dangerous man for villains to tangle with...
...price and brink-of-war. Thank goodness our Secretary of State has the courage to place justice and morality in international affairs above peace. I'm not surprised that the British object to this type of foreign policy. After all, one of their leaders carried his umbrella to Munich. But it is a source of disappointment that some Democrats are so hard pressed for an election-year issue...