Word: handkerchiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowded onto the stage, which was decked with enough floral tributes to do justice to a gangster's funeral. But tall, ample Lotte Lehmann, one of the greatest sopranos of her fading day, making her 18th annual appearance at Manhattan's Town Hall, still nervously clutched a handkerchief as she sang Schubert's Müllerin song cycle. Said she, afterwards: "The first concert in New York is always difficult. The heart goes like that! It is like having again a difficult examination...
Harry Truman, Gridiron Target No. 1 for the first time, saw a newsman dressed in double-breasted grey suit, handkerchief sticking from his breast pocket, singing Wanting You to Joe Stalin. What the real Harry Truman had to say in reply was-by Gridiron custom-off the record...
...would wish to marry-"not one who would sit at home all day among the cinders." When he took part in public games, she dressed up as a serving maid and hid in the crowd to watch him, and she was delighted when he impudently snatched her handkerchief and mopped his brow with it during a tennis match...
...lotion for he-men only." (But Manhattan's Faberge, Inc. was selling a cologne: "Aphrodisia for Men.") Courtley Ltd.'s bubble baths had ruddy, full-blooded titles: "Chukker," "Steeple Chase," "Irish Moss." Parfums L'Orle Inc. of Manhattan had "Buckskin" and "Touchwood" perfumes ("Just for your handkerchief, of course") at $5 an ounce. Another managed to combine the smell of "the finest cognac, cedarwood, Russian leather and the great outdoors...
...carries the load of running G.M. with remarkable ease. He still dresses with a touch of the dandy. In his tie, he usually wears a pearl stick pin. A silk handkerchief always cascades from his breast pocket. Usually he gets to his office about 9:30 a.m., goes through his business day in a lope. In winter, he drives from his 14-room apartment on Fifth Avenue; in summer he takes the train into Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station from his 25 acres near Great Neck, L.I., rides the subway to his office...