Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little Ben yelled his indignation. Ushers rushed to silence him. Tante Chasha smote them hip & thigh with her umbrella. "He's a bright boy," she roared, "and he's got a right to complain. . . ." "Mrs. Swernofsky," begged the manager, "I am really surprised. ... I must ask you to apologize." Tante Chasha shattered the remains of her umbrella on the manager's head. Then she whisked little Ben away. "Remember what I tell you," she said. "That's the right way to apologize...
...Charles worked as a clerk in the East India Company, totting up sales figures for tea, indigo, silks and spices. Neighbors used to set their watches when his tiny figure emerged in the morning. Dressed in black, his spindly legs sheathed in Chinese silk stockings, and carrying a green umbrella, Lamb walked placidly to work. He "looked no one in the face for more than a moment, yet contrived to see everything." Perched on his high office stool, he mailed, at the East India Company's expense, the numerous letters written by his youthful friends William Wordsworth and Samuel...
...widower held an unsteady umbrella against India's brilliant sun. About his shawled figure pressed kinsfolk and friends, chanting Hindu, Moslem, Parsi and Christian prayers. Intently he looked upon the burning ghat...
...Annapolis-educated Lewis Brereton: to umbrella the invasion. Made Companion of the Order of the Bath last November, the General still wears baggy pants and an old sweater under his flying suit. His old habit of turning up unexpectedly at his medium-bomber and fighter stations has a new twist: now he leaves a trail of red printed placards which read "Keep Mobile-Brereton...
Careerist. In Manhattan, off to prison went John Stoloto, who had been twice nabbed-first as he tried to swipe an umbrella from the District Attorney's auto: next, a few minutes later, as he rummaged through the car of a detective...