Word: handkerchiefed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...terrorize. Undaunted, Heeney charged the massive Argentine, belted him soundingly, won several early rounds. Frequently Campolo turned his head, spat nervously, was biffed. Then in round eight, Campolo unloosed a right uppercut which hoisted Heeney clean off the canvas. At the ringside, Heeney's wife tore her handkerchief, moaned into it. In the ninth Heeney was twice bumped to the floor, twice wambled up again. The referee, humane, stopped the bout but neglected the ceremony of lifting high the victor's right hand. Campolo, a ceremonious Latin, raised it himself, promenaded about the ring, threw kisses...
James John Walker passed through the lobby of Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton, holding a handkerchief to his cheek. An observer said, "There goes the Mayor, looking half shot." An excitable woman heard, saw the handkerchief, started a report that the Mayor had been shot. Two hours later the Mayor arrived at the City Hall, explained to a frantic horde of reporters that the reason for the handkerchief had been three bad teeth, to be extracted the next...
...Case. A Jew, one Leon Beron. was found murdered and robbed on Clapham Common. The letter S was roughly carved on his cheeks. A black-and-red silk handkerchief, a paper bag from Whitechapel, some stab marks evidently made by a tall, strong, left-handed man were the clews. Sleuth Wrensley tracked and arrested Notorious Murderer "Steinie" Morrison...
Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italy's poet-soldier, now 65 and bald even to the eyebrows, had his appendix removed last week. The operation required 45 minutes. Poet-Soldier d'Annunzio took only local anesthetic, lay with a silk handkerchief over his face, talked, laughed, devised and recited verses. Later his personal physician, Dr. Alessandro Duse, found his recuperation normal...
Tears rolled down the rugged Warren cheeks and were frankly wiped away by a large white handkerchief as the Senate rose en masse to applaud unstintedly its laconic patriarch...