Word: umbrella
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Londoners finally got in on the act, some found what remained of Dali's nightmarish designs more distracting and boring than shocking. The frame of the harp that played for Salome's dance was a painted giraffe's neck. Herodias' tent was surmounted by umbrella skeletons which undulatingly opened and shut throughout the performance. John's severed head was a tame affair that looked more like a haggis: Dali's more horrifying head had been axed at the last minute by the censor. What delirium the audience felt was set off by redheaded...
...Expedite." R. K. Mellon and his associates formed the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, a sort of umbrella organization to throw over the civic enterprises already in existence, and added new plans of their own. Then they enlisted David Lawrence, Pittsburgh's Democratic mayor, as a bridge to the Democrats and to Pittsburgh labor. "We expedite. We get things into motion," was R. K. Mellon's description of the Allegheny Conference...
...Laotians, and French President Vincent Auriol signed a treaty establishing Laos as an independent nation within the French Union. French soldiers, who henceforth would be required to salute the Laotian flag, should have little trouble recognizing it: a red field bearing a three-headed white elephant topped by an umbrella...
Last week, Soviet Bandleader Leonid Utesov produced a satiric view of Russian inventiveness. In a skit at Moscow's Hermitage Gardens, Utesov tells a friend that he is to be congratulated-he has just invented the umbrella. The friend points out that the umbrella has already been invented. "Yes," says Utesov, "but I am the first man to invent the umbrella for the second time...
...Boastful Utesov was wrong. The umbrella has been invented again & again. A Chinese legend attributes its invention to a woman who lived some 3,000 years ago. The Greeks and Romans had it, but most of Europe forgot its umbrella during the Middle Ages. In the 16th Century some unnamed Italian invented it again. Two centuries later, however, umbrellas were being greeted with amazement in England and Scotland. North America's first umbrella appeared on the streets of Baltimore in 1772. According to one account, "Pedestrians stood transfixed, women were frightened, horses ran away, and naughty children threw stones...