Word: handkerchiefed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thirty-four years ago a small, mobile man pushed aside the swinging doors of a Manhattan barroom and strode to the middle of the smoky, beery room. He unfolded a snowy clean handkerchief; spread it neatly on the dirty floor, stood...
...flag to be dropped overboard as we crossed the pole? Ellsworth the Stars and Stripes and I the national flag of Norway. In keeping with Nobile's injunctions to keep down the weight of all baggage, we had each brought a little flag not much larger than a pocket handkerchief. . . . Imagine our astonishment to see Nobile dropping overside not one, but armfuls of flags. For a few moments the Norge looked like a circus wagon of the skies. ... I was amused at his childish pleasure in feeling that he had 'put something over' and gained a greater honor...
...Mayor Walker reached Paris from Rome and flipped off the train in a chocolate crush hat, blue shirt and suit, green and brown tie, beige topcoat and lavender handkerchief dashed with brown and purple...
Handwriting. Newspapers last week printed the last words of Paul Redfern, lost flyer to Brazil. In scratchy manuscript, dropped to the deck of the steamer Christian Krogh, the facsimile read: "Point ship to nearest land, wave flag or handkerchief once for each 100 miles. Thanks, Redfern...
August Frey mopped his bloody nose with a cotton handkerchief, remarked sadly to bystanders: "Well, what do you think of that...