Word: umbrellaism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk from a dry room under the stands, but when he heard that half of his audience had stuck through the rain, he turned on his heel and splashed through the thick, black mud to the outdoor platform. A solicitous aide tried to shield him with a big umbrella, but Ike brushed it aside. Then he tossed away his broad-brimmed hat, and, with rain splattering on his bald head, began his maiden political speech...
...sunny day in Bucharest, as the story goes, a friend stopped Ana Pauker in the street and asked: "Ana, why are you carrying an umbrella? It's not raining." Replied Rumania's No. i Communist: "It's raining in Moscow. I heard it on the radio." Last week fat Ana Pauker had her umbrella up; it was raining horribly in Moscow...
...fully awake, and his best hours run on from then till 5 or 6. Around the circus he wears riding clothes, but towards evening he assumes a somber elegance. In New York he goes on the town dressed like a career diplomat, sporting a cane or tightly rolled umbrella, black hat in the Anthony Eden style, gloves carried but not worn and suits cut in the English fashion...
...sunny California, some rain is always falling into the lives of Democrats. Last month the party's high command in Washington decided to raise an umbrella over the longtime split between the party's left wing, led by James Roosevelt, and its right wing, led by wealthy Rancher E. George Luckey. Beneath the umbrella, veteran Congressman Harry Sheppard put together a 76-member slate of "regular" delegates to the national convention, fusing the left and the right. They were held together by Sheppard's firm promise that Harry Truman would stay in California's June...
...could be seen walking in brilliant sunshine with a raised umbrella over his head; his wife had put it up for him during the last rain, and he had since seen no reason to put it down. A waitress who brought him two poached eggs saw them fly into his lap when he struck the table to drive home a point; they remained there, unnoticed and unfelt, even when he paused in his argument to cry: "Waitress, will you please bring me two more poached eggs? I seem to have lost the others...