Word: handkerchiefs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prison can be hard on a man, and when Gotti finally appeared last week in Brooklyn Federal Court, the "Dapper Don" of the tabloids showed signs of fashion fatigue. No tie. No tan. His graying hair no longer meticulously styled. Only a starched white pocket handkerchief, practically a Gotti trademark, hinted of better days as the alleged head of the Gambino crime family. While attorneys painstakingly questioned prospective jurors, whose names were kept secret for their protection, Gotti suffered another setback: U.S. District Judge Eugene Nickerson ruled that during the trial, the boss could not eat lunch in the courtroom...
...confident and rarely tongue-tied; with that ever so sly, slightly lidded look of hers, she imparted the gentlest hint of irony to the proceedings. The coaching that she received from Gandhi Director Sir Richard Attenborough paid off. Charles even provided a touch of Piccadilly farce by draping a handkerchief over his head to distract Sons William, 3, and Henry, 1, and then mugging like an attenuated version of his great-great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria. The children were amused...
Here is the hectoring muse of the theater, certain of every wink and diphthong. For Pygmalion, a road company Liza Doolittle is counseled on Cockney sounds: "Liar is lawyer . . . Handkerchief is Enkecher . . . Brute is not broot: it is brer-ewt. The utterance is slovenly and nasal, colds in the head being almost chronic in the gutter...
...Only that morning, Stethem's grave had been a bare plot marked by a green metal stake; cemetery officials hurried to get a Vermont marble headstone inscribed for the visit. Mrs. Reagan set a bouquet of white roses and carnations at the stone, then wiped away tears with a handkerchief...
This section of the boom, which seems more than a little vindictive, tells of cheap Christmas presents (a butler was given his choice between blue or brown handkerchief), low wages, and enormous clothing expenses. The staff quarters in the family's private homes are woefully underfurnished; only at Buckingham Palace, where the government pays the bills, do the servants receive heat...