Word: handkerchiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long ago flagged and climbed aboard the U.S. train. Their German religion has given way to Congregationalism. Few of the young generation can speak a German word. Whenever a Warden boy leaves for the war there is a typical American party (coffee, food, Farmer in the Dell, Drop the Handkerchief) in the school basement. Their Americanization is ably abetted by the high-school faculty, which puts great emphasis on the history of the U.S. and the State of Washington...
Tony Biddle paused to brush a few long, white dog hairs off his blue business suit. He was, as always, faultlessly dressed: white shirt with horizontal black stripes, grey tie, red pocket handkerchief...
Rabbi Mann has found the psychology he learned at Yale more valuable than his theology. In his study, filled with 700 books (there are 1,000 more in the adjoining bathroom), he sees an average of eight parishioners a day who come with problems. He keeps a fresh handkerchief in his desk drawer for those who cry. If he cannot straighten out a case, he recommends a psychiatrist...
Combat brought one operation never hinted at in tactics manuals. While flying over the Mediterranean during North Africa's last days, one grasshopper spotted a small boatload of Germans. Pilot and observer fired their pistols. The Germans waved a white handkerchief of surrender and headed in to shore. The pilot landed on the beach, left his observer to guard the prisoners, flew off for reinforcements to come and take them away...
...funds could ever refuse him. With a piano, a bottle of gin, and a hot weather handkerchief, he is one of the most infectious men alive. With his wife Anita and their two musically gifted sons, Maurice, 15, and Ronald, 14, he lives in an eight-room English brick house in St. Albans, L.I. The house has a Hammond organ, a size B Steinway grand and an automatic phonograph with 1,500 records. Next to Lincoln and F.D.R., Fats considers Johann Sebastian Bach the greatest man in history...