Word: umbrellaism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...porridge, bacon & eggs, he set out for his place of business, the publishing firm of Faber & Faber, in Bloomsbury. He left his flat in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea (Expatriate Henry James used to live in the flat just below), wearing an impeccable dark blue suit and carrying a tightly rolled umbrella, walked one block to the No, 49 bus stop. When the bus came, he mounted to the upper deck, unfolded his London Times to the crossword puzzle, and fell...
Though Surinam's mines provide U.S. aluminum makers with two-thirds of their bauxite, they are so mechanized that fewer than 3,000 natives work in them. For the most part, Surinamers live in stagnant torpor, surrounded by jungle, mangrove swamps, umbrella ants, red howlers, web-footed dogs, and water pigs. Most of the people suffer variously from malaria, fllariasis, dysentery or leprosy...
Sammy couldn't compose like Gershwin either. But he had managed to knock out some simple little songs and two of them became hits: Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine and Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella. He migrated to show business, wrote the music for the 1939 George White's Scandals-including another hit called Are You Having...
...Quarry. At 10:15 every morning, carrying a rolled-up umbrella, wearing rubbers if there is a hint of rain, punctual Alger Hiss, with his wife, climbs the long front steps of Manhattan's U.S. Court House. Crowded in an elevator with half a dozen reporters, lawyers, jurors, he rides up to the 13th floor. Reporters, long since accustomed to his constant, faintly smiling presence, discuss him calmly within his hearing-in the elevator, in the corridor outside the courtroom, in Andre's restaurant near the old World Building. There the Hisses also go for lunch; the management...