Word: handkerchiefs
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Disregarding Holmes' advice almost 200 handkerchief-wielding, bleary-eyed University students flock to the Hygiene Building at bi-weekly intervals to get injections for their malady. So great has been their onslaught that the bottles of serum used for the shots have overflowed one refrigerator, and the Hygiene Department has been forced to install another one to handle the rush...
...little, thin man with a round face, a blinding grin, and white pop-eyes, who seldom appears without a handkerchief in his left hand, kept an impatient audience waiting twenty extra minutes at Symphony Hall last Friday night while he practised his trumpet scales. Then, when he finally appeared, and the band swung through a loud and brassy and the band swung through a loud and brassy "Stompin' At The Savoy" it became clear that Louis Armstrong, at forty-seven, was still a vibrant, entrancing stage personality with a beautifully phrased trumpet and a voice that had lost none...
...erect man in a dark suit coming on stage after the show was already on the air. He led with an economy of gesture; only occasionally did he indulge in vigorous sweeping motions. But at the end Toscanini was obviously exhausted: he kept patting his brow with a scented handkerchief as he made his exit through the violin section...
Late in the afternoon there began an unusual scurrying around on the floor. Senators began to gather in huddles. Minority Leader Alben Barkley lumbered over to the Democratic cloakroom door and talked at length with the man who stood there, just inside, nervously flicking at his lips with a handkerchief-Bilbo...
...Christian Smuts, backed by Britain and the U.S., asked to have the matter adjudicated by the International Court of Justice. But many delegates watched the appealing, sari-clad figure of India's Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (sister of Jawaharlal Nehru, who dabbed at her eyes with a handkerchief), and they forgot the World Court. Mrs. Pandit had previously claimed that "Jesus Christ Himself . . . would be a prohibited immigrant [to South Africa]." The two countries were instructed (32-to-15, with seven abstentions) to compose their differences in the spirit of the Charter, report to the Assembly next September. This...