Word: handkerchiefed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nothing!" Famed Italian surgeon Professor Bastianelli, rushed to Premier Mussolini and deftly checked a possible nasal hemorrhage by holding his handkerchief in such a way as to stop the flow of blood partly, without allowing it to back up in the nasal passages. For an instant the Premier reeled, muttered under his breath, "A woman! Fancy, a woman...
...There are many ways of committing white slavery," suggested the Secretary of the Watch and Ward Society in a momentary digression. "One could do it by crouching in a dark alley with a slouch cap drawn over his eyes and a chloroform handkerchief in one hand and a pistol in the other ready to jump upon the victim and toss her unconscious into an automobile, and lock her up later in a room, or one can open a cafe and enliven it with music and attract young women there as a miller is drawn toward the light, then fill their...
...CRIMSON representative suggested Mary, Queen of Scots, Lady Macbeth, Lillie Kupps, all the great figures of histrionc history. She looked disdainful. "I have wanted"--here her lustrous eyes maintained their Tustre--"I have always wanted to play Cinderella--and Betty Bronson has that cinched." The reporter manipulated a sympatic handkerchief. "To be Cinderella--even in Boston on Washington Street--that would be something." The reporter acquiesced; after all it would be something. But he had another thought...
...left of the curtains waited a middle-aged man in a cutaway coat. He kept pulling out his handkerchief and putting it back again; he fidgeted with his necktie. Clearly he too felt the suspense of this taut interval, this moment so charged with imminent revelations. What mystery waited for exploitation?what exotic, perhaps sinister spectacle would be disclosed upon that curtained dais?. . . The curtains twitched again. Then slowly, awfully, they were drawn back. There, stripped of all covering, backed by a golden screen and brilliantly illuminated from above and below, stood nine Chippendale chairs...
...said Mr. Mencken, sneezing into his handkerchief...