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...stood spellhound staring bleakly as the spirit, of Christmas himself, Larry Jaffa (English run cake and all that) skipped merrily, through Mellon C and D. Ray Wible took one look and put in an emergency call to report the situation to the B.D.O. Dressed in a Lilli Dache model bandana, white gloves, and red stockings, Larry succeeded in throwing the holiday spirit and the disbursement assignment into high gear in short order...

Author: By Jack T. Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 12/22/1944 | See Source »

...converted to the mission-style dress from neck to knee. By signs, a New York sergeant conveyed to a Makin girl that he wanted a grass skirt for a souvenir. Quickly she whipped hers off, politely offered it. The red-faced soldier hastily gave the gift-giver a large bandana handkerchief. Graciously she accepted, deftly wrapped it around her head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GILBERT ISLANDS: Manners Maketh Man | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...Rawlings to Cross Creek. "She came walking toward me in the grove one bright sunny December day. . . . She walked like a very young woman and walks so to this day. She is getting on to seventy. . . . She was dressed neatly in calico with a handkerchief bound around her head, bandana fashion. She was a rich smooth brown. . . . She said: 'I come to pay my respecks. I be's Martha. Martha Mickens. I wants to welcome you. Me and my man, Old Will, was the first hands on this place. . . . It's home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Enchanted Land | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...forth between the old and the new, not knowing where to turn. We have in mind a man we saw at Sunday dinner. Dressed in a new tweed jacket, of whalebone pattern, and wearing the black knit tie, he pulled from his pocket a large and faded red bandana, and just a little self-consciously wiped his nose. -The Daily Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 10/7/1939 | See Source »

...performed with scrupulous regularity for nearly 40 years. . . . [There was also] Disraeli, twice premier of England, whom Lytton Strachey describes as 'a vainglorious creature racked by gout and asthma, dyed and corseted with a curl on his miserable old forehead kept in its place all night by a bandana handkerchief!' . . . Kant, while living in Holland, lived in 13 different places and changed his abode 24 times; Voltaire [was] inordinately vain, unscrupulous, once a forger and seemingly ever tempted by suicide. . . . William James often thought of suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Man's Madness | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

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