Word: handkerchiefs
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...great bow wave of the Renown feathered out and she steamed away, a slender male figure climbed atop a pile of chains and rubbish on the wharf. For some moments the handkerchief of Edward of Wales was waved by its owner...
...Earl's wife, Margot Asquith, she of the sharp features and biting tongue, could not control her emotions, sobbed. At last, as numerous members of the audience began to weep, that iron-hearted Liberal, Viscount Grey of Fallodon drew forth his handkerchief and wiped his eyes...
...66th hour, the "twelve good men and true" with circles under their eyes, as gloomy as craters in the moon again walked into the courtroom. Harry Daugherty watched them with one eye, covered his other inflamed one with a handkerchief. Colonel Miller chewed gum. Mrs. Miller bit her finger nails. Judge Mack wearily asked them: "Have you arrived at a verdict, gentlemen...
...could not mind having her about the house. The aged Jean Jacques was not such a fool, after all. And no one can dislike hearing a man go singing to his death when one is sure he will return. The colonel had to return, if only to wave his handkerchief. By the way, devotees of the Metropolitan should see the uniform on--was he a captain? That alone is worth, sacre bleu, twelve thousand francs of my uncle's money
...Caruso was elsewhere, was delighted when John returned to New York to find himself the father of such a youth. There was something princely in the way he posed, astride an otherwise unmanageable black stallion, for Sculptor St. George; in the calmness with which he retrieved and accepted the handkerchief and door key dropped at his feet by his first woman, a reigning and inaccessible beauty...