Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Three Marys-Maria Magdalena, Maria Madre, Maria Cleofas-lie off Tepic on Mexico's West coast, 60 miles out in the Pacific. They can only be reached by a wheezing, blunt-nosed government steamer from dusty Mazatlan. Armed with dark glasses and a large cotton sun umbrella, Newsman Maier took this steamer, chugged out to Maria Madre, the largest island. There he found Mother Concepcion, a grave, deep-voiced, slightly masculine woman, knitting undershirts. Breathlessly he told her of the end of Mexico's religious troubles. Mother Concepcion laid down her undershirt, smiled composedly. She was "full...
...Looking paunchy, with glints of grey in his hair, Jones wore a white sweater, grey knickers, grey socks, black & white shoes. . . . His huge bag is made of leather. Attached to it was a blue plaid umbrella. The bag contained three woods (driver, spoon, brassie) and nine rusty irons. A tenth iron, shiny and new, was the mashie-niblick with which he pitched his 293rd stroke...
Last fortnight Vienna beheld a street parade of floats representing all manner of trades and industries. Around and among the slow-moving floats pranced and danced umbrella makers, luggage manufacturers, butchers, bakers, florists, plumbers, executing dance figures appropriate to their trades. Specially composed music, tunes of historical significance, were recorded on phonograph discs, broadcast from a central station, picked up and amplified on the floats. Author of the spectacle was Rudolf von Laban, Austrian painter, philosopher, choreographer. He was demonstrating his point that dancing lends itself as well as any of the arts to the purposes of commerce...
Wednesday. Following Stanley Baldwin's retirement. Ramsay James MacDonald went to Windsor, umbrella in hand, obedient to a royal summons, and accepted the King's command to form a new government. King George was out of bed and sitting up to receive him, but little Princess Elizabeth was noticeably absent...
...Manhattan, Colyumist Elsie McCormick of the World told last week of a practicable use for live eels, also for umbrella covers. Procedure: place the eel in the umbrella cover, attach the umbrella cover to the rear of a Mephistopheles costume, go to a fancy dress ball...