Word: umbrellaism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third day in Manhattan she got down to serious shopping. A saleswoman showed Her Majesty around Hammacher Schlemmer and helped her select about $300 worth of gadgets-including bar equipment, a Scrabble game ("I'm just learning to play") and an umbrella-shaped umbrella stand. At Saks Fifth Avenue there was a mob scene as the Queen Mother bought jeweled cashmere sweaters for Queen Elizabeth (size 12) and Princess Margaret (size 10). "I'm afraid I'm buying too much," said the Queen, with a sudden womanly qualm. But then, in an equally womanly way, she comforted...
...them showed a mustached international smoothie, outfitted with Homburg and umbrella, whispering mysteriously to an innocent-looking girl: "I could arrange to import for you an authentic set of secret, smuggled photographs of the new Chevrolet!" Cautioned the ad: "Beware of impostors, Continental bounders and novel approaches. The new Motoramic Chevrolets will be seen by everybody at the same time...
Sixteen years ago, Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich, his furled umbrella in one hand, a piece of paper in the other, and rode through cheering crowds from Heston aerodrome to No. 10 Downing Street. To the crowd gathered before his door in Downing Street he proclaimed: "For the second time in our history a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor." King George VI welcomed him at Buckingham Palace; Britons stood in the rain cheering him as he declared, "I believe it is peace for our time...
Compared to the splendid enterprise led by Hunt, the Izzard expedition was a joke. Against some 360 coolies, Izzard had five. He had no map or compass and his equipment consisted in part of two pairs of sneakers, a few pots, an old U.S. Army pup tent, an umbrella to ward off the leeches that fell like leaves from the trees. The incongruous team traveled fast and far over rough country carpeted with rhododendrons, orchids and magnolias. Izzard had never climbed anything more formidable than a flight of stairs, but he caught up to the British advance party after...
...Mourning's seven pupils were Coopers.) Mother Cooper disagreed with her husband's ideas about private education, and one day, when Judge Cooper was off in Texas checking some oil properties, she sent John Sherman, neatly dressed in Buster Brown collar and knickerbockers and carrying an umbrella, off to the sixth grade at the public school. Within a week he had fought the school's two leading bullies to a dogged draw, and for some time thereafter he had to take on all comers...