Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joined by a papal legate, ten bishops, hundreds of priests and thousands of faithful Frenchmen (Stes.-Maries is a shrine not only to gypsies but to Catholics). Rain whipped across the swampy, sandy Camargue plain; in front of the fortresslike church, the officiating legate stood beneath a bright green umbrella. The drenched gypsies carried statues of their saints to the shore while Gardians (Provencal cowboys) charged ahead into the sea. A bishop blessed the sea and the gypsies cried: "Vive Sainte Sarah!" The other pilgrims responded: "Vivent les Saintes Maries...
Married. Maria Jeritza, 60, full-fashioned, bubbly opera star of the '20s; and Irving Peter Seery, 57, Newark umbrella-maker and opera-lover; she for the third time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
Ministerial Washerwomen. Daumier's perspective on Paris was that of a fiercely republican poor boy. When the July revolution of 1830 toppled Charles X from the throne, Daumier was a hopeful 22; Louis-Philippe, the compromise "Pear-King," soon blasted his hopes. He caricatured the umbrella-toting King as a Gargantua being stuffed with gold by dutiful midgets. Gargantua was displeased, but Daumier got off with a suspended sentence. In 1832 he tried his hand at a cartoon in which the King's ministers appeared as washerwomen. That one cost him six months in jail...
...Union was taking on some hard outlines of reality. Delegates to a five-nation meeting (Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg) moved rapidly toward a defensive alliance against Russia. By mid-March, the delegates' work would be presented to their Foreign Ministers who were expected to sign an "umbrella treaty," to keep Western Europe out of the Red rain. The Czech crisis had speeded up the fusion of Europe's democratic forces...
...Francesco came in behind the Contis. His umbrella was closed. Not a single Communist was left in Riofreddo...