Word: handkerchiefs
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...believe that everything is all right. "Help, help, police!" they cried, but they got no help, and with a derisive toot the locomotive began to puff and chuff. Gretchen and the other young women waved goodbye, and the richly dressed old woman sprinkled eau de cologne on her handkerchief, dabbed her forehead. At Hamburg, like the watchful and virtuous chaperone of a bevy of schoolgirls, she shepherded her 15 charges aboard the spick-and-span steamer Eubee...
Holding his pocket handkerchief...
...Marine Band dinning in his ears, Citizen Hunefeld took note of the bodyguardsmen (secret service) standing about. They could not be too careful guarding the President's life. Some crank might get in. McKinley had been shot that way by a man with a revolver under a handkerchief. President Harding had been asked to wear a bullet-proof vest at his first reception in 1922 but refused. An experienced receptionist, Citizen Hunefeld knew he could not put his hands in his pockets; he had seen women warned to take their hands out from under their furs...
After Magistrate Vitale and friends had feasted, sung and speechified, there were footfalls on the stairs. Seven men entered the room and held up the crowd. One of the gunmen had a handkerchief over his face and carried two revolvers; the others worked with faces bare and bland. They acquired some $5,000 worth of cash and jewelry and several firearms. They met no resistance at all from Police Detective Arthur C. Johnson, an imposing fellow who had held that position for 17 years and thrice been recommended for bravery. His gun was one of those taken away...
...English ancestors and namesakes invented "Graves' disease." His father was a school inspector, and wrote poetry. When he told his children stories he never began, "Once upon a time,'' but ''And so the old gardener blew his nose on a red pocket handkerchief." At 14 Graves went to Charterhouse, famed English public school. He was clumsy, ignorant, independent; he did not get along well. If he had not discovered an aptitude for boxing, he would probably have had a worse time. Graves has some harsh things to say about the English public schools. "For every...