Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rise at the Easter sunrise service in Arlington National Cemetery's amphitheatre whither went President & Mrs. Hoover. A chill, misty drizzle fell on the President's bare head until a military aide found an umbrella to hold over...
Lean Lord Willingdon, Viceroy of India, rode to the Council House at New Delhi beneath a gold umbrella last week, opened India's Legislative Assembly with these words...
...Orleans. He acknowledges "securing aid and authorization of Miss Nightingale's relatives." To Mr. Strachey, however, Florence Nightingale was more like the kind of person Carrie Nation might have turned out to be had she been interested in caring for the sick instead of breaking up bars with umbrella and hatchet. The Strachey, or "real" Nightingale was possessed of a fatigueless demon, was no mystic...
...platoon of police. bravely withstood a brick-&-umbrella charge from rioters behind the British Museum last week...
...Hurley, well-traveled daughter of an admiral, nimbly manipulated her chopsticks, her Oklahoma husband had to fumble with a fork. At Shanghai, despite the season's worst typhoon, Secretary Hurley went ashore at the jetty, reviewed a battalion of U. S. Marines, got soaking wet. Under a Chinese umbrella Mrs. Hurley shopped in Nanking Road, marveled at bargains due to the low exchange rate. And finally last week after 24 days' journeying the President Cleveland steamed into Manila harbor, set Secretary Hurley down at his official destination...