Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Weygand?" Every morning when the late great Marshal Ferdinand Foch reached his fusty little office he would lean his umbrella in the corner, adjust his spectacles and call out as he sat down to work, "Et Maintenant, Où est mon Weygand...
...before. At Northwestern University last month 30 pacifists, with banners, heckled an R. O. T. C. dress parade. At the College of the City of New York, students attempted to gang their President Frederick Bertram! Robinson at an R. O. T. C. parade while he belabored them with an umbrella. At Wisconsin and Missouri pacifists were bitter...
Confidence in the educational system of New York is not increased by the spectacle of the president of its City College belaboring students with an umbrella like an irate old beldame charging a group of plaguing boys, nor by the action of the Board of Education in calling policemen to protect it from its own teachers. The City College is busy meting out discipline because a crowd of pacifist students blocked the path of the president--and of course the inevitable "distinguished visitors"--on the way to review a drill by the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Certainly some...
...college's Reserve Officers' Training Corps. When he reached the entrance with his military science department head, Colonel George Chase Lewis, and other guests, he found a Pacifist crowd blocking his way. They jostled him, pinioned his arms for a moment. Then he raised his umbrella, flayed left & right, soon lost his umbrella. Police drove a flying wedge into the mob, surrounded...
...impression of safety, strength, and calm. It does honor to the Americans, and classes them with the Romans among the great builders of history." In Lima he found the people as climate-loyal as Californians; though in winter there is usually a misty drizzle, no one carries an umbrella. "You will even be treated as a Chilean-supreme insult! -if you carry one." In Peru "there is no public opinion, no consideration whatever of the general good." Siegfried did not care much for Buenos Aires, but of Rio de Janeiro he says: "If there are seven wonders in the world...