Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palace by the then Empress Zauditu. Commandeering the tank, faithful Waizeru Menen sent it crashing through the Palace gates, rescued her husband. A woman of the world, Her Majesty journeyed with maximum pomp to Jerusalem two years ago (TIME, Oct. 9). Three hundred pounds of majesty beneath her State umbrella, symbol of Abyssinian sovereignty, she lent glamour to the consecration beside the River Jordan of a new Coptic Church and Convent- Abyssinians being Coptic Christians. "The Empress is not interested in public affairs," fibbed Her Majesty's suave Grand Chamberlain. "She is interested only in her home and children...
...cahoots with all kinds of magical powers, astounded and captivated her charges by the series of delightful adventures she sprang on them. One night, to the children's dismay, the wind changed. Sure enough, Mary Poppins left. But she went away in style, by the umbrella route...
Died. Philip Hale, 80. retired music critic of the Boston Herald; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Boston. For 30 years his shrewd scholarly criticisms made him Boston's oracle on music and the theatre. He wore bright Windsor ties, carried a big umbrella and a green felt bag. Last week's Symphony audience stood to show its respect for wise Philip Hale...
After okaying the galley proof, Editor Leach scribbled a headline: "The Revolt Against Crime." He clapped a hat over his thinning brown hair, slipped into a raincoat, picked up his umbrella, strode out of the Forum office and joined the late afternoon crowds hurrying along Manhattan's Lexington Avenue. There was plenty of time for his customary brisk jaunt through Central Park before dinner...
...easier to get a job in a choir than on the stage of the Metropolitan. Once when he was singing in John D. Rockefeller Sr.'s Baptist Church his thunderous diapason is said to have made the old tycoon whisper to a retainer: "Did you bring an umbrella?" From choir-singing Sennett drifted into burlesque, then heard there were jobs to be had in the infant cinema industry. He was a member of David Wark Griffith's Biograph troupe when it went to Los Angeles in 1910. In those days his cinema-going mother always knew the state...