Word: handkerchiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always had a yearning to run away," confessed Painter Paul Gauguin in his Intimate Journals. "At Orleans, at the age of nine, I set out for the forest of Bondy-carrying a handkerchief filled with sand slung on the end of a stick over my shoulder. The picture of a traveler with bundle and staff . . . had always intrigued...
...talked about Poets W. H. Auden and E. E. Cummings, about modern dancing, and about vacation trips-"This time last year I was in Paris." She posed for photographers-smoothing Defense Attorney Archie Palmer's ruffled hair, adjusting the handkerchief in his suit, looking angry, looking happy, staring pensively into the distance...
...Coplon bit her lips, began to twist a handkerchief. From across the room Archie Palmer rasped: "Try to smile, Mrs. Coplon." The old lady immediately burst into tears. Archie, who had a selection of throat lozenges lined up along the jury rail, picked out an orange mint and popped it contentedly into his mouth. Judy held her mother's hands. Judge and jury entered. Said Archie, over the sound of the old lady's sobbing...
...driven by chunky Bill Holland, roared the usual two extra laps for insurance, its ruddy-faced owner hotfooted it from the pits to the victory cage, dabbing at his eyes with a handkerchief. "I feel wonderful," he said, with the tears still coming. He had narrowly missed seeing his three entries take first, second and fourth place; with only eight laps to go, one of Moore's cars had to drop out with a broken magneto strap. But by taking first and third, Moore won $65,855 in prizes, split (6s%-35%) with his drivers...
When he was asked to discuss U.S.Brazilian relations, Vargas was silent for fully two minutes as he toyed with an unlit cigar, crumpled a handkerchief, and looked out across his rolling pastures. Then he said: "Roosevelt trusted me. He believed that Brazil should be a great country. A strong Brazil would make a strong ally-a good customer. We were right when we had that point of view...