Word: handkerchiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first showing. Goring exclaimed: "That's the type of film we used to show our Russian prisoners." Streicher sat on his chair's edge, clasped and unclasped his hands. Field Marshal Kesselring's face blanched. Hans Frank, the butcher of Poland's Jews, stuffed his handkerchief in his mouth and gagged. Ribbentrop left the room with head bowed. But he walked straight to the dining room...
...olive pit at his two married daughters, blew kisses, beamed happily at his wife. But as he rose to speak -still wearing his pistol-tears rolled down his cheeks and his high, thin voice grew almost inaudible. He sat down after less than five minutes, put a big handkerchief to his face. Then he lighted a big cigar...
...Allied press. Fifty-odd newsmen (and some visiting Mexican generals) saw him seated under a pepper tree in Augsburg, fidgeting with a pair of sky-blue gloves. The sun was hot; so were some of the questions. G&246ring sweated, constantly mopped his brow with a rumpled handkerchief. But he lost his composure only once, when a correspondent asked: "What about the Reichsmarshal's statement that if 'the Allies ever bombed Berlin, 'my name is Meyer'?" G&246ring reddened, mopped, fell silent...
...each carrier plane's air-sea rescue kit is a Celanese rayon-acetate map, printed on a salt-and-sun-proof pocket handkerchief...
When his visitors were seated, the tall, timid don (invariably dressed in black clericals) would produce a memorandum book, quickly draw a diagram of the room, and note in it precisely the position of each chair and its occupant's name. If he nervously pulled a handkerchief from his pocket, a cascade of carefully graded pennies, shillings and half crowns was likely to stream onto the floor. At this, he would hurriedly fill the teapot and pace up & down swinging it, for ten minutes exactly -"he claimed the tea was better...