Word: handkerchiefs
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...class." Confused and uncertain in the presence of radio experts, she was nevertheless gratified that her family looked impressed even when she told them, in technical language, of howling blunders she had committed. As the Lindberghs started for the frozen North, someone in the Morrow family gave her a handkerchief, saying thoughtfully, "You will probably need an extra one, you know...
...come a long ways. I'll be glad to meet them." Obediently the secretary stood aside until the room was filled, then stepped down to close the door. He did not notice a calm, boyish-looking man who slipped past him, his right hand bandaged in a handkerchief. Out of the handkerchief spat two bullets. President McKinley slumped on the arm of an aide. Instantly the young secretary was at his side. "My wife," murmured the wounded President, "be careful, Cortelyou, how you tell her-oh, be careful." During the eight-day vigil that followed, it was Secretary Cortelyou...
...than this story, however, is the portrait of the Scarlet Pimpernel as a boy of eleven years old, "from a contemporary silver point drawing." With an air of the greatest insouciance young Percy stands in his tailcoat, ruff, and knee breeches, his left hand daintily grasping the well known handkerchief, his right elevating some sort of lorgnette or bauble which is not clearly distinguishable, and looking for all the world exactly as he did at twenty and at thirty and at forty...
...invited hundreds of friends to surprise him. Every opera singer still in town said another tearful goodby, drank champagne toasts. Gatti seemed tired and bewildered. But he replied with "Viva America, Viva Italia, Viva Roosevelt, Viva Mussolini." As the Rex pulled out of dock, Gatti slowly waved his handkerchief so long as he could be seen...
Senator Copeland looked hopefully toward the chair where Sergeant-at-Arms Chesley W. Jurney was supposed to sit. The chair was there, but Mr. Jurney's cutaway coat, his polka dot necktie and his big purple handkerchief were not to be seen. On his eminence Senator Pittman called aloud...