Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blue Danube (which was muddy-brown) and floated on a board past the ancient German city of Regensburg. "Ja, das ist ein schönes Schwein!" wailed the hungry, war-worn customers. Even the portly mayor of Regensburg forgot his civic dignity, flopped on his belly, and lost his umbrella trying to hook the pig. "Swim after it, drag it ashore-and report to me!" roared Nazi Gauleiter Stoltz. But the pig was deaf to Hitlerism. It only stepped ashore ("as one coming home from a casual . . . voyage") when the board grounded on a tiny, sandy island in mid-Danube...
...lunch was pleasant and friendly. Larry Whipp glowed with the news that his passport was ready for a holiday trip to the U.S. At 4 p.m. the organist put his grey soft hat on his balding head, picked up his neatly rolled umbrella and walked out into Auteuil's gloomy Sunday twilight. No one has seen hide nor hair of him since...
...American is altogether a comical soldier. He stands guard with an umbrella. . . . The American comes and then he gets no farther. . . . They are not soldiers-jitterbugs and tango lovers-'fight' and 'advance' are foreign words to them...
...year for five years. The personality was the conference's dominating president, Lady Violet Bonham Carter, 57, brilliant daughter of the late great Liberal Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith. A great friend of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Lady Violet said: "As the Tories once sheltered behind the Chamberlain umbrella, they will at the next election try to shelter behind the Churchill tank. . . . I would cut off my right hand for the Prime Minister, but I would rather die than have that right hand vote Tory...
Oldendorf's heavyweights, the armored tip of the spear, were days ahead of the other groups. They included the "ghost ships," veteran battleships raised from the mud of Pearl Harbor, which had fought so well at Surigao. His jeep carriers opened an air umbrella as he bored past Mindoro into the South China...