Word: handkerchiefs
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...went to Lawyer Arthur A. Tarlow who agreed to help him. Speedily Lawyer Tarlow obtained a rehearing of Mrs. Hanna's case. Three physicians questioned her. They found her illiterate, but discovered that she knew that a match touched to wood makes it burn; that a handkerchief is used to "blow the nose"; that leather comes from "goat, cow, sheep"; that her bus fare to the courthouse was 10?; that three bus fares would be 30?. Asked where she went to pray, she replied: "Church." To whom did she pray? "God." How many Gods are there? "One." She readily...
...deep-lined face white as a handkerchief, wizened Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, hoisted himself to his feet and. leaning heavily on his two canes, advanced to the great table in the centre of the House of Commons...
...expected, a jury of seven bachelors and five husbands last week acquitted deep-dimpled, winsome Mrs. Charlotte Nixon-Nirdlinger, 26, self-confessed killer of her rich, jealous, 54-year-old U. S. husband (TIME, March 23). In a skin-tight black dress, she sobbed into a pitifully small white handkerchief edged with black, told the jurymen she shot in self defense, told them she shot in total darkness after he, with jealous, groping hands had reached to wring her neck...
...gazing out across the wide and lovely and silent desert. Undulating, pastel tinted. A white handkerchief knotted at each of the four corners rested upon the famous shock of curly grey hair...
...dais close to Their Majesties, Edward of Wales also had a cold. When he could stand his own snuffling no longer, H. R. H. daringly extracted a handkerchief from beneath his imposing, ermine-collared robe and blew his nose. "It was tremendously human and so very much like the Prince," cabled the New York Time's sensitive Charles A. Selden. "That white handkerchief served as a most restful spot for the eyes. . . . General Dawes served the same useful purpose. . . . His Chicago full evening dress was a relieving splash of black and white against the blue, green, gold and scarlet...