Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...screwball drawings of famed German Expressionist Paul Klee (TIME, Oct. 21). Some showed kangaroos and kookaburra birds drawn with their internal organs visible X-ray-wise through the skin. One, depicting a spirit, looked (see cut) like a child's conception of the late Jean Harlow carrying an umbrella and a fan. To paint them, Australia's aboriginal artists had used brushes made from the chewed ends of reeds, blowing masticated colors, made of earth and powdered talc, through them. Result was an art as uninhibited and dramatic as a good job of headhunting...
...same sort of fungi can still be found sprouting palely in the darker, danker corners of A.F. of L. For instance: "Umbrella Mike" Boyle. During the lush war years, Mike collected thousands of dollars in "insurance premiums" for guaranteeing that his Chicago electrical workers would not strike. He served two months (on a year's sentence) in the clink for conspiring to break the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. But last week he was still running the Chicago electrical workers...
...Bless You, Mr. Chamberlain (We're all mighty proud of you. You look swell holding your umbrella. All the world loves a wonderful feller . . .). (This song is now out of print...
...Wanderer (an undressed Biblical spectacle) : "... patronized by the sex-suburbanite, the visitor from the provinces of decorum to the carnal capital. There he may, maybe not, with arctic overshoes and furled umbrella look up open-mouthed at the tall buildings of sex, and wonder, without being soiled...
...serving maid sought refuge in the Bureau, settled the case with an exchange of $2.00 for the umbrella, the house-coat, and the slippers...