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Frightened Cardinal. Not many kinds of spider kill as elegantly as Aranea. One called Agelena makes a heavy sheet web that she spreads out on a bush or hedge, where it looks like a flimsy, dirty handkerchief. Agelena has no glue, and she must subdue her victim before he breaks loose. This involves violent battles and considerable risk every time she tackles something that can fight. But Agelena is a big spider (her body is three-quarters of an inch long), and she has an advantage which one arachnologist has neatly compared to that of a man on skis chasing...
...Poems and The Notebooks of Malte Laurīds Brigge were making him the talk of European intellectuals. From his large, sensual mouth came a flood of such poetic fancies as his description of a tangerine, "in which a summer is folded up very small like an Italian silk handkerchief in a nutshell...
...monkey," the little boy in the second row squirmed off his mother's lap, picked up an abandoned umbrella and started to march. "I won't be a garbage collector after all," he said. An old man took off his black hat and wiped his forehead with his handkerchief; his newspaper fell off the chair but he didn't notice...
...Jones, another Cambridge resident, was walking down Linnaean Street with his date. A man quietly crept up behind them and before Jones could do anything he was forced to turn down Gray Street at gun point. On Gray Street a second man, his face covered by a white handkerchief with a thin brown border, joined the first thief. They took $15 from Jones' wallet leaving him with $10; they asked for both captives' watches, but then returned them...
...Princetonian didn't really have to mention the plant, since undergraduates guessed that it was there anyhow. On days when the wind is southeasterly, and the weather damp, Princeton men have found that a moist handkerchief over the nose is a distinct help in getting about...