Word: handkerchiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stories had to be specially reset, and cartoons redrawn with simpler lines, for the Colonel's one-copy edition. Just how much all this cost, no Tribman would say. It took 28 minutes to broadcast the first issue (four pages, about the size of a lady's handkerchief) 29 miles to the Colonel's home. The Colonel liked it so well that he ordered a new facsimile machine which will reproduce a page about three times as fast...
...Fields) had to deal with the opéra bouffe element which the West so often finds in the Japanese character. The chief Jap defendant, Hideki Tojo, picked his nose unconcernedly and flirted with an American stenographer. Hiroshi Oshima, wartime ambassador to Germany, affected the dandy, with white pocket handkerchief, smart bow tie and black-ribboned pince...
When one pine-marked trench was opened, Red Cross girls descended, pawed over 250 corpses so decomposed that they were no longer horrible. They called to men with notebooks: "One handkerchief marked with a K, one pair of glasses." Then, enthusiastically, "Here is his passport, his name is Piotr Kowalski." In another trench was all that was mortal of Mieczyslaw Niedzialkowski, a Warsaw Socialist editor who had loved strong argument and strong drink and who, in 1939, had organized the workers' brigades that helped defend his city. Last week the workmen built him a little coffin and laid...
...unpinned a badge he was wearing, which carried the words 'MacArthur for President,' and pinned it on the lapel of my coat. [Thereafter] when the boy passed my room, I proudly displayed the badge; when anyone else came along, I took evasive action with a pocket handkerchief...
Pedro Leao Velloso was the watchful Brazilian. A lawyer and seasoned diplomat, Dr. Velloso sat silently and glistened; his dark green glasses, the scarflike handkerchief that poured from his breast pocket, the glistening mahogany-hued dome of his bald pate all shone...