Word: handkerchiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drop the Handkerchief." From the beginning of the session, complained Majority Leader Scott Lucas, "I learned that not much speed could be made by trying to make haste, and that we must let nature take its course in the Senate." Well, the Democrats had a 54-member majority in the Senate, didn't they, asked Indiana's Homer Capehart. Why didn't they get down to business instead of "playing politics, fooling the American people, and playing drop the handkerchief...
...patience with dilettantes who merely think they know how to do it. Articles on bee hunting, says he, have one thing in common: "They are written by men who never possibly could have found a bee tree, at least by pursuing the methods they describe." Sample fallacies: a handkerchief soaked in anise will induce bees to point the way to their hive (actually they will shun the lure); a "beeline" home is straight (it is really erratic because "no two bees have exactly the same idea as to the best way home...
Gallup Independent to learn the business, later became editor of a crusading political weekly. There he got in the habit of carrying type metal wrapped in a handkerchief to defend himself...
Gallup Independent to learn the business, later became editor of a crusading political weekly. There he got in the habit of carrying type metal wrapped in a handkerchief to defend himself...
Nuggets & Dust. Finally Black Bart slipped up. Hurrying away from a stage robbery near Sonora in 1883, he dropped a handkerchief bearing the mark of a San Francisco laundry. That was all his pursuers needed to track him down. He turned out to be a 55-year-old man who lived in quiet "retirement" and often ate his lunch at a Kearney Street bakery. His name: Charley Bolton...