Word: handkerchief
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...game for the title, the winner guaranteed at least a share of the Ivy crown. And when a little man threw a yellow handkerchief with not even a little time left on the clock, the Harvard-Penn football series had been changed forever...
...South Pacific; in Hollywood. A renowned raconteur who often told of his youthful adventures as a soldier in the French Foreign Legion and as entertainment coordinator for Al Capone's nightclubs, Prinz once declared: "The public thinks that a dancing master is a flighty individual with a handkerchief in his sleeve and a set of taps on his shoes. I'd rather you called me Butch...
...content is right, it does not matter whether there is one anchor or six." Yet when the shows are so similar, perhaps all that the networks have to sell is Brokaw's lopsided grin, Rather's riveting eyes, or Jennings' meticulously folded breast-pocket handkerchief...
...Germany. Two years later, in the fall of 1935, Helms was a United Press reporter in Berlin, hunched forward in his seat in the Kroll Opera House watching Hitler rant against the Versailles Treaty. "I noticed that Hitler had become rather pale," Helms recalls. "He was passing a handkerchief back and forth between his hands underneath the lectern." Suddenly Helms understood. "At this moment," Hitler shouted, "German troops are crossing the Rhine bridges and occupying the Rhineland!" His mesmerized audience cheered wildly. Helms, then 23, was stunned. The world shrugged...
Torch Song Trilogy. Son of a Brooklyn handkerchief maker, Playwright Harvey Fierstein began working as a drag queen in East Village clubs at 16. As he enacts the key role, he vividly evokes a mode of life that is alternately hilarious and heart-wrenching...