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...cotillion "was the main event of the ball, beginning at midnight, after supper. Your partner's first act was to secure a pair of chairs by tying them together with a handkerchief. These were all placed around the ballroom in front of the benches reserved for chaperons and unlucky girls who had no partners. The leader of the cotillion had absolute powers; his word was law. He rarely took a partner, and so was free to direct the dancing. At a signal from him, a certain number of couples-six, ten, twelve, as the case might be-danced through...
...stood so when he cried to the court that all he had done was at the orders of higher Fascists and Germans. He had stood so when he was condemned. Now he stood at the place of his death. He wore a bright blue suit, well cut. A white handkerchief flowered from his jacket pocket. He had not shaved well...
...dummies as McCarthy is likely to be after his first encounter with Effie Klinker. Long ago Bergen had a bad vaudeville flop with the effigy of an eight-year-old. But ten months ago, asked to perform on an NBC show without either McCarthy or Snerd, he folded his handkerchief over his fingers, threw his falsetto voice, and one Ophelia began to talk. "All of a sudden," recalls Bergen, "it dawned on me that women can get into many more situations than men, particularly a bachelor maid." Bergen has kept Ophelia in his act, as a sort of ectoplasmic voice...
...mission-style dress from neck to knee. By signs, a New York sergeant conveyed to a Makin girl that he wanted a grass skirt for a souvenir. Quickly she whipped hers off, politely offered it. The red-faced soldier hastily gave the gift-giver a large bandana handkerchief. Graciously she accepted, deftly wrapped it around her head...
...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...