Word: umbrellas
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...came last week that pious women have found a way to circumvent the recent law that all Turkish women must go about with their faces naked. Since the Government of President Mustafa Kemal Pasha has ravished from Turkish womenfolk the veil, Mohammedan "Fundamentalists" in Trebizond adopted last week the umbrella. Determined to protect modesty, they walked in rain or sunshine with only eyes peeping above umbrellas held flat against face and body...
Active Painter Clivette is in attendance at the show, slender wiry, electrical, his hands like names. To illustrate motion, he will balance an umbrella on his goateed chin before a canvas. "After 40 years of tossing knives into the air you learn light and motion," says...
...that their votes are cast according to the merits of every question, are tolerated by the 384 Fascists who virtually make up the Chamber. Last week, as the bill presented was of vital import Communist Deputy Costantino Lazzari tried to fight his way into the Chamber armed with an umbrella which he wielded vigorously. Strong Fascist arms expelled...
...silly little pieces of paper, oblong, square, three-cornered, printed in faded colors, smudged with ink marks, none of them bigger than a square inch or so, none of them very beautiful, and none of them the least use in the world. Such rubbish, said a woman with an umbrella, eyeing disdainfully a red and black oblong all by itself in a glass case ten times too large for it, such rubbish might as well be burned, and better. She turned away and, crossing a large white granite hall, found a taxi that would take her away as quickly...
...this country, to persuade U. S. radiannouncers not to call a "suite" (of rooms or furniture) a "suit," a "coupe" (small closed car) a "coop," a "radiator" a "raddiator,"or radio"raddio" not to say "worshing" (a Pittsburghism) for "washing," "kewpon" for "coupon" "kaif" for "cafe," "pitcher" for "picture," "umbrella," "athaletic," 'fillum" and "I-ow'a" for their comparatively manageable originals...