Word: handkerchiefs
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...easily explained was a curious collection found in Florrie's trunk and in various places in the house: a package labeled "Arsenic-Poison for cats," three bottles with arsenic in them, a rag and a handkerchief impregnated with arsenic, other lethal odds & ends which doctors said were enough in sum to poison 50 people. Florrie was convicted, sentenced to be hanged...
...signed up by Billy Rose as singer for a small hotspot, she couldn't make herself heard or seen until the late, great Ring Lardner boosted her to the top of a piano. After that, she always sat on one to sing her husky blues, wistfully twisting her handkerchief, managing to look waifishly beautiful...
...novel. Subject: the war between generations (he favors the elder). He lives in Manhattan's Alden Hotel, does his work out of town, at West Point. He has applied for U.S. citizenship; has a draft number. In his pocket he carries a crystal rosary, wrapped in a lace handkerchief. It was given to him by the proprietress of a Nancy brothel who hid him from the Germans for three days...
...Liberia, last week came word of a U.S. gesture that greatly gratified all patriotic Liberians. From a U.S. warship which recently anchored off the capital, sailors brought ashore a tiny Liberian flag. (The Liberian flag: eleven red and white horizontal stripes, a single white star on a blue field.) Handkerchief-size, it was pieced together from the tatters of the first Liberian flag, which had been preserved...
...relay-race; a favorite heating pipe near the window must be tagged before the return to the desk. But the hike may be interrupted by a noisy sneezing attack requiring a five to ten minute clean up job, accompanied by an incoherent lecture muffled by his towel-sized handkerchief. Invariably there is a periodical clothes-adjusting campaign, ranging from shoe lacing to shirt buttoning. The closing five minutes bring a cessation of the vaudeville and a sudden turn to sweeping phrases in Greek, Latin, Arabic and occasionally English, in a vain attempt to tie together the lost lecture...