Word: handkerchief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rare woman who will not feel indignant, though she will conceal her rage, when presented with a handkerchief. Luckily there are many alternatives near the Square like Harvard mascots, scarves and embossed jewelry. Band albums are wonderful presents and even a Harvard calendar can be useful...
...sprinkled with sequins (modeled by a French poodle), banker's grey herringbone coats for town, polo coats for the country. For delicate dogs, there was a red raincoat with matching hood to be worn with waterproof leather boots. Coats had a pocket, placed aft of amidships, for a handkerchief, of course. Hats included an item bedecked with pussy willows, another with a long black plume. All of them were to be had at Hammacher Schlemmer's on East 57th Street, a locality where New Yorkers who don't need anything shop for things they didn...
Those were the days of the red handkerchiefs. When the students signed for their tickets before the big game, some in the choice sections would get tickets marked RED HANDKERCHIEF. Just before game time the boys would don their raccoon coats and rush over to Brine's, Leavitt and Pierce, or the Coop to pick up their Crimson cloths...
...demands-a great market for progress. Most Turks would understand the words of Celtik village's oldest inhabitant, 92-year-old Hayriye Soydan. Stooped, wrinkled and deaf, she still wears the traditional western Anatolian peasant costume-flowered baggy trousers, dark blouse, a blue-and-white yasmak (handkerchief) around her head. Sitting cross-legged on a long sofa, she told her (and, in a sense, Turkey's) story...
...Dark. With night falling fast, the errant balloonist took stock of his situation. "The altimeter," he said later, "was the only instrument I had in the bas. ket. I looked in my pockets to see what else there might be. There was a pocketknife for opening beer bottles, a handkerchief and 1,650 Belgian francs. Nothing else." Bravely the bold aeronaut straightened the pink tie that hung across his cream-colored shirt. Belgium and the motorboat were fast disappearing in the gloaming to windward. As Holland's Walcheren Island coasted by, van der Straeten noticed a steamer below...