Word: handkerchief
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...Whereas he did not promptly strike that rival dead, he was therefore turned out of the swaggering little Southern town of Magnolia, therefore he Resolved to become a devil among the Mississippi gamblers. A pull at a trigger is to him then as a flick of his deft cambric handkerchief, he worsts that most delectable of all villains, Noah Beery, and returns to wipe his feet on the top piece of his rival. The whole is served in Southern style, with a beautiful, beautiful heroine, and dialogue in which there "ah no ahs." So once more Rhodemont is made ridiculous...
Upon the field of honor went the students, each with a hand grenade firmly fixed between the thumb and fingers of the right hand. When the umpire dropped his white handkerchief the duellists threw their bombs? both failed to explode...
...when he declared against remission of Allied War debts, when he gave his "unqualified approval" to tax reduction, when he favored restriction of immigration, when he demanded every aid for disabled War veterans. In 64 minutes he had finished. There was a burst of cheering. Gathering his manuscript, his handkerchief, his spectacle case, he disappeared...
...huge "H" of waving red and white handkerchiefs covering the entire Harvard cheering section will be one of the features of the period between the halves at the Yale football game on Saturday. This year, as in previous years, every ticket to the cheering section has been stamped for a red or white handkerchief with which to form the "H". Such handkerchiefs may be obtained at the H. A. A. ticket office until Saturday morning. The cheer leaders for Saturday are especially urgent in requesting all holders of cheering section tickets to obtain the special red and white handkerchiefs before...
...quite warm enouth"-beyond that point men become lazy, and are apt to done in lectures. It gives further words of wisdom: "Don't go to any public meetings if you have a cold"-an important piece of advice; and "Don't sneze or cough except into a handkerchief"-if the student is wise, he does not cough at all during certain lectures in English course-for coughing has often been called "an unnecessary luxury...