Word: umbrellas
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...single notes are concerned it does not matter how [a pianist] strikes the key, so long as he strikes it with the requisite degree of force. . . . The tone quality will be the same whether he strikes it with his fingers or even the end of his umbrella...
...important is your first contact with the old man. . . . You begin by awaiting him at the end of your famous office in the Palazzo Venezia. You let him walk 100 meters on a floor more polished than ever. It would be best if he fell down and let his umbrella fall two or three times before reaching...
...students and faculty. He quarreled with Philosopher Morris Cohen, with Morris Cohen's son Felix. (Disliking Undergraduate Felix's editorials, Dr. Robinson tried vainly to keep him out of Phi Beta Kappa.) He suppressed student magazines and meetings, once belabored a dozen booing undergraduates with his umbrella...
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...France, since Munich, wits have referred to Britain's Prime Minister as "J'aime Berlin." In Belgium, having seen that there was one article of worldly goods which Mr. Chamberlain never was without, not only wits but solid citizens began strolling into umbrella stores and asking for "um chamberlain...