Word: handkerchiefs
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Though he wore a handkerchief mask over the lower part of his face, the tall man in mirror-type sunglasses seemed to show a workmanly patience at his job. For more than an hour one dark morning last week, he painstakingly measured out puddles of gasoline in each of the five dining rooms of Allgauer's Fireside restaurant in Lincolnwood, a suburb northwest of Chicago. While a stubby accomplice leveled an automatic at seven late workers and busboys, he methodically laid fuses of gasoline-soaked toilet paper from pool to pool. When, at 3:45 a.m.. things were...
...class struggle. The only emotion more persuasive than pity that he displays in Two Women is self-pity. When it comes to man's fate-the tragedy that lies too deep for tears-Moravia, the master weeper, refuses to open any wound that a woman's handkerchief cannot staunch...
...intermission, sighting Cuevas in the crowd. Lifar rushed up to him, theatrically flung a scented handkerchief at the marquis' exquisitely shod feet. Painfully, the ancient marquis bent down, picked up the handkerchief, flourished it in Lifar's face while photographers' flashbulbs flared. Said a bystander: "I thought they were embracing." Au contraire...
...local fencing school, where he was practicing. At a chance meeting in a TV studio, brutal words were exchanged. Cried Lifar: "I feel sorry for you; you can hardly see. But I'll make you dance a minuet to my épée." Replied Cuevas: "Your handkerchief was so starched it could almost have drawn blood...
...main Author Lee is a great neh-sayer. He liked Hellenic warmth, individuality and liveliness (but not the oil-drenched cuisine). He was stirred by the keening, semi-Oriental laments known as Greek music and the sturdy acrobatics of the men's handkerchief dances in the tavernas...