Word: handkerchiefs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...much attention being paid to individual features. An arresting point in the painting is the incongruity of the shabbily dressed man holding clumsily the luxurious and fragile flowers, whose bright red contrast strongly with the dingy black and brown of his dress. This red and the red of the handkerchief in his pocket put life into the scene and bring the whole into focus...
Some 3,000 pair of eyes were glued on the two chairmen as, each in a natty light brown suit with handkerchief peeping from breast pocket, they mounted the Forum platform in the Grand Ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria one afternoon last week. The rivals grinned, clasped hands...
...rule against holding the tray with two hands was not enforced. When a plug-ugly protege of Promoter Dempsey dropped a handkerchief, 54 entrants from 15 Manhattan restaurants set off at a run from 59th street down Eighth Avenue to 50th street. Winner, a surly-looking Italian named Dominick Caccippio, got $125, a silver cup and the whiskey from his tray...
...charm, talent, personality, figure. First day the girls reported for duty at 9:30 a.m., postured in bathing suits for photographers, paraded, sang, danced, tootled saxophones in the first "talent" competitions. All gaped at acrobatic Evelyn Townley ("Miss Buckeye Lake, Ohio"), as she leaned over backwards, snatched a handkerchief from the floor with her teeth. They were still going at ir 11:30 p.m. when the American Beauty Ball started...
...evening last week some 25 people were crowded into the provincial liquor store of Sarnia, Ont., just across the St. Clair River from Port Huron, Mich. Into the shop stepped two holdup men, one small and wizened, the other masked with a black silk handkerchief. Both waved revolvers, made the customers line up face to the wall while the larger bandit climbed the wire partition to the cashier's drawer, scooped up the cash, climbed back again, ordering all the customers to file into the liquor room. What happened next was best described by one Jack Cosley...