Word: umbrellaism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public eye, "King" Selfridge grabbed all the publicity he could (Bleriot's little plane was on display in the store the day after it flew the Channel), advertised as no London merchant had ever advertised before. Selfridge's offered customers "101 unusual services," including expert umbrella rolling, cricket bat oiling, pipe cleaning, wig-making, wart removing. The store's "Great Luncheon Rooms" offered Southern U.S. cooking, such as "Fried Chicken, Maryland Cream Chicken, Corn...
...seems that the sword of righteousness so handily wielded by Mr. Truman at the outset of the Korean conflict has become an umbrella...
President Conant gets a thorough going over as a "red hot interventionist and globalist" who shields radicals under the "protective umbrella of academic freedom." For two columns Fulton reiterates his charge that the University a hot bed of subversive activity, but he makes no specific accusations of Communism against any person who is connected with the University...
...Hasty Heart. In Seattle, angered by a trolley motorman who forgot to call out her stop, a woman passenger 1) beat him with her umbrella, 2 ) followed him to a telephone and yanked it off the wall when he tried to summon help, 3) pelted him with canned goods from her shopping bag, 4) smashed the window of another trolley when its motorman refused to let her board...
London Publisher Philip Unwin thinks he knows why Britons, cabined in their own austere little isles, have been snapping up such books. "Every man, whether at a factory bench or sitting in an office with his hat and rolled umbrella hung behind him, secretly longs for the sort of adventure of which these books tell. The illusion is heightened because they are true stories. He knows it can be done and has been done...