Word: handkerchiefs
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Socialites who packed the courtroom waved handkerchief encouragement to Senora de la Torre Mendoza. Her military judges avoided her flashing gaze...
...claim of first-to-Lincoln rested largely on his own sworn statement on reporting the autopsy to the Surgeon-General. Dr. Leale also claimed to have put the half-dollars on the dead Lincoln's staring eyes, to have bound up the drooping jaw with a pocket handkerchief...
...pleased than frightened. Her abductor does not disillusion her. Although he can only converse with monkeys and is, aside from his ability as a gymnast, convincingly subhuman, Tarzan shows a surprising grasp of the niceties of romantic love. He is only rough once, when he seizes Jane Parker's handkerchief, tears it in half and gives a disagreeable grunt...
...France, the motherland, Foundling Marie Basilide lavished the love that her parents never stayed to receive. Motherland France did not reciprocate this love; the native peasant boys took it personally. From the boys Marie occasionally accepted small gifts-"a knife, a printed handkerchief, a ruler, or a tobacco pouch, but never a penny unless it had a hole...
Said Ethel Barrymore, throatily: "It seems to me, sitting at this table with Hauptmann, as if I were sitting at a table with Beethoven, Heine, Goethe - and Hauptmann. Thank you. I can say no more." Actress Barrymore sat down, sobbed gently into a lace handkerchief. Occasion was a dinner at Manhattan's Lotos Club for Gerhart Hauptmann, famed German dramatist. Sturdy, ruddy at 69, Dramatist Hauptmann was invited to the U. S. by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. With him came his second wife and his son, Dr. Benvenuto Hauptmann, translator of Conrad and Kipling, interpreter...