Word: handkerchiefed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suddenly, a noisy pandemonium. Mill whistles screeched, fire alarms wailed loudly, people cheered and shouted; through all this racket was deeply audible the steady stentorian drumming of an airplane motor. President Coolidge, a curiously small and inconspicuous figure, stood with a group of Sunday-School children, waving a white handkerchief as he craned up at the aviator who was circling the town barely above the trees. Presently the plane dipped sharply over where the President was standing, then flew swiftly away over the distant hills. The roar of its motor, all whistles and alarms dwindled and the city grew quiet...
...Brooklyn, Ruth Galfas, 14 months old, caught a greedy chunk of banana in her windpipe; her father Hyman, frantic, ran with her to a drug store, was intercepted by Patrolman Francis Ryan. Patrolman Ryan, calm, dislodged the banana lump; the baby seemed dead. Patrolman Ryan, resourceful, put a handkerchief over her mouth and breathed down her throat for 20 minutes. She revived...
...been severely ill with laryngitis, but last week his physician, Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen, allowed him to receive reporters. A Morris chair was set at his bedside, and Mr. Macdonald, clad in flannel pajamas, got up, donned a bathrobe, sat down?frequently mopping his brow with a folded handkerchief. He spoke in a bitter, tired voice of the British Government's now pending anti-strike bill (TIME, April...
...copious handkerchief blotted the eyes and wiped the cheeks of a portly man in the Senate Chamber of Indiana one day last week, after Lieut. Governor Van Orman had informed the portly one that he had been found innocent of high improprieties. The margin of innocence was two votes. A majority of the Senators voted guilty but two-thirds were needed to convict. The portly one was Circuit Judge Clarence W. Dearth of Muncie, against whom the weekly Post-Democrat of his home town had loudly protested for alleged jury-packing and interference with freedom of the press (TIME, April...
...tacit admission that her figure could not bear unaided the test of the Empire dress; consequently, brother's remarks would be received by his young friends with an injure! air, and a vehement protest against such a false accusation. Brother would then test their truth by dropping his handkerchief and requesting them to pick it up; if they wore a 'board' stooping would be impossible, or, at all events, very difficult. The ordeal would cover them with confusion, when the philosopher of 13 years would resume his moral lectures upon the laws of hygiene and the follies of fashion...