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...White Bear" answered. The little man tightened the dark scarf around his neck, tugged the broken beak of his cap over his eyes and went out into the rain. With him floated the ropey smell of cheap twist and stale beer. Snatches of conversation flickered around the low-ceilinged room...
...Bergh was granted police powers by New York State authorities, soon became the terror of all horse drivers. He would go into battle in a high silk hat, waxed moustaches, gleaming gold scarf pin, yellow kid gloves, Prince Albert coat. When he pointed his accusing cane, police would drag an offending driver from his seat, haul him into court. If drivers argued, Bergh often knocked their heads together with his own well-manicured hands...
Montgomery's pursuing troops swept into Tobruk, where Imperial troops in 1941 held Rommel off for eight months. Montgomery pushed on. A German news agency reported that Rommel in shirt and shorts, minus his coat and his favorite grey-&-white striped scarf, fled from a field headquarters just in time to avoid capture by British tanks. Arriving at a new base, he cracked (according to Nazi propaganda): "Like Napoleon I lost my equipment but there won't be any Waterloo...
...leaders met with settled purpose. Inside their huge Pandal electric fans hummed. They had the unprecedented extravagance to provide chairs for everyone. They opened their meeting with terrific trumpet blasts. A band played Marching Through Georgia. Crowds surged on Gandhi when he arrived in his loincloth, a narrow white scarf around his neck. Twice he lost his glasses. Each time his admirers tried to put them back on for him. Momentarily forgetting nonviolence, he swung his fists to ward off the overzealous. Inside the Pandal, Gandhi spoke, cross-legged from a couch, into a microphone. A friend explained...
...Charlotte Koehler, The Netherlands' Cornelia Otis Skinner, has flaunted her way into a concentration camp by reading overtones of hatred and scorn for the Nazis into her dramatic sketches. To acknowledge applause she coyly waved a scarf (orange) at her audience...