Word: handkerchiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later, after blackened bodies had been taken in gunny sacks to an improvised morgue, numbed relatives listened to undertakers' assistants: "Does a heart-shaped locket mean anything to anyone? Does a very plain wedding ring worn on the right hand mean anything? Here is a red linen handkerchief with the words 'Bonnie Scotland' on it, and a ruby ring." By week's end the dead were counted at 31, including the special's engine crew...
Footpads, pickpockets and housebreakers, with all the riffraff who lived by their wits, filled the underworld of London's alleys and gin shops with an argot of which traces still survive. "Frisking" meant searching, then as now. A watch was a "tick," a handkerchief was a "wipe," and "wipe priggers" (pickpockets) flourished among theater standees. A glass of gin was a "flash of lightning',, and too many flashes often lit the way to "Tuck 'em Fair" (the place of execution...
...appeared for inspection, he spotted the first. The boatswain solemnly dispatched Brown to cut it. "Why Brown?" barked Illingworth. "Send the man who tied it there while I was watching him a half hour ago." Telling this story, Illingworth last week bounded about his quarters illustratively tying a handkerchief here, sticking a piece of paper there, until the bright, paneled room seemed aflutter with Irish pennants...
Every Sunday before broadcast time (3 p.m. E.D.T., ABC), to "warm up" the studio audience, Lassie yips, yowls, quivers, limps, rolls over and generally works himself into a lather (which Weatherwax wipes off with a clean handkerchief). Then he bounds onto a table, squats with his snout a professional six inches from the mike. "On-the-air" is signaled, Lassie barks, the show...
...addition is Cyril Ritchard, who plays Tattle, described in the program as "a half-witted bean, vain of his amours, yet valuing himself for secrecy." Favored with the most rewarding role, Ritchard struts about, using always the right high-pitched tone and the right decadent sweep of his silk handkerchief...