Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...employee pointed out a strange speciman: "That's a Chinese Umbrella tree--only one in these parts for many years," he explained. 'That Austrian Pine is pretty rare for this section of the country too." These are among the trees still standing which will be saved to landscape the new development...
...Republican President. But there were some 80 other special events, from a Hollywood variety show to the formal Inaugural Ball in the National Guard Armory. There would be a 7-mile-long parade, with 40 floats, 30 bands, a steam calliope, thousands of marching troops and civilians, an air umbrella of 650 military aircraft...
...black town car built for Mrs. Alfred P. Sloan Jr., wife of G.M.'s board chairman. It has interior fittings of silver, a chauffeur's umbrella, a pearl-grey clipped sheepskin carpet, a short-wave telephone, a gold compact, and a lifetime fountain pen. Nearby was a gunmetal "hardtop" convertible designed for President Wilson and christened the Coup de Ville. Upholstered in pleated gunmetal leather, it has a telephone, pull-out desk and engraved vanity case. ("Not that I use powder," quipped Wilson...
...charges at a public hearing. Although nine of the 13 ministers on the "jury" were Klansmen, they cleared him after a one-day "trial" held at the Rice Hotel a week before election. He won the election. Three campaigns later, however, he was defeated. One reason: he swung an umbrella at the publisher of a Houston newspaper who had threateningly brandished a letter-opener during a heated argument. "You just can't explain that sort of thing to the people," said Holcombe...
Many French tenants were distressed. Groaned one: "I'd sleep under an umbrella first...