Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become a boy he must become truthful, courageous, unselfish. His one constant companion in the adventures that test the little puppet is Jiminy Cricket, his conscience, "that still, small voice that nobody listens to." This worldly but goodhearted little insect, topped by a grey topper and swinging an umbrella ("a genuine Chamberlain" which he sometimes uses for a parachute), comes to work late the very first day, fails Pinocchio when he needs his conscience most, despairs when Pinocchio despairs, is chirpingly cheerful when the puppet is. He is a fresh little fellow, too, who always calls Pinocchio "Pinoak," yells, "Break...
Late in 1933 a powerful, cantankerous Chicago unionist named Michael J. ("Umbrella Mike") Boyle took umbrage at the management of the swank Edgewater Beach Hotel. Some said (and Mike Boyle denied) that the hotel had refused to let him live there; others, that a dispute over recognition of his electrical union got his dander up. Tough "Umbrella Mike"*knows much about the dark & bloody side of Chicago unionism, twice went to jail (for contempt of court, conspiracy to restrain trade). He was also tough enough to call out Edgewater Beach electricians, declare a strike. Allied with the electricians were waiters...
...called because he used to carry an umbrella rain or shine, hang it on the bar rail in Johnson's saloon, and stand innocently by while contractors dropped tribute into the folds...
...frontpaged in The Women), but the picture's love interest. Hildegarde appears as a young woman, trying to leave the news paper business. She begins bravely by divorcing her husband and managing editor, Walter Burns (Gary Grant), falls flat for Insuranceman Bruce (Ralph Bellamy), who has rubbers, an umbrella and a companionate mother...