Word: umbrellas
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...mailman's umbrella with slotted handle, to clip on the edge of a mail...
...Harrovians, young and old, and they rushed on to the field to carry off the winning team on their shoulders. Some how a few Etonians got in the way, and be fore the enthusiasm had died down many an Eton topper had been smashed in and many an Harrovian umbrella busted. It was a very unseemly, frightfully un-British brawl...
Double-Dutch-damned by Nazi toy makers was Britain's Prime Minister Arthur Neville Chamberlain. Reason: the sales of German-made toys in Britain were threatened by the waxing popularity of British-made Chamberlain-with-umbrella toys...
...directors' table in the big board room of Jersey City's First National Bank one day last week sat handsome, strapping Oscar Cintas, a long Cuban cigarette between his slim fingers, a sleekly rolled umbrella between his well-tailored knees. Across the table, and nervous under Oscar Cintas' blazing black eyes, sat gnome-like Charlie Hardy. Jampacked in the room were some 125 A. C. F. stockholders, come to the annual meeting to see Hardy and Cintas, no longer friends, have...
...their views, heckled the management, demanded minority representation, applauded, jeered. When the uproar was over, tough Charlie Hardy announced the results of the annual election: the management slate had been reelected. Extent of its support: more than 60% of the 589,150 eligible shares. Oscar Cintas picked up his umbrella and walked out with Latin disdain...