Word: handkerchiefs
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18th Month. Can cross his feet and stand on one foot; can use his handkerchief properly; memory begins to function as in the adult mind...
Unless the French diplomats are a flock of drivelling idiots, they must see that German aggression can be thwarted only by prompt action of the league of Nations. Yet despite this, France continues to play drop the handkerchief while Geneva strives to rally the forces of the world against the depredations of Italy. Nothing could be more asinine than the recent statement by Laval, that while France would fulfill her covenant duties, still she would strive to find some way of enticing Benito and Haile to lie down in the jungle together...
...York Times calling card. It was identification. I was all alone. I was not afraid, oh, no. But I might faint or become ill. I knew no Italian and no one there was likely to know any English. And no one there knew me. Folded in my handkerchief I had a very tiny bottle of smelling salts, in case I might have again what I had the previous night. Over my arm I draped the rosaries and in my fingers I held the little objects...
...catcher of his class baseball team at Williams, and recalls how hazardous the sport then was. "If we were hurt, we were hurt. I still carry the scar of a left finger badly broken by a foul tip; I remember pushing the bone back under the skin, wrapping a handkerchief around it and playing the game out, but any one of us would have preferred to lose a finger rather than lose a ball game...
...head a straw hat, on his arm a stick, in his breast pocket a handkerchief, at his throat a red cravat with large white polka dots, the chief police officer of the U. S. Senate last week set out upon a manhunt. Last year Sergeant-at-Arms Chesley W. Jurney tracked down through a fairyland of misadventures Lawyer-Lobbyist William P. MacCracken, one-time Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, helped to have him jailed for ten days for contempt of the Senate (TIME, Feb. 12, 1934, et seq.). Now Sleuth Jurney, on behalf of his Senatorial masters...