Word: handkerchief
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...suits. The vicuna suits crowd $450. If he had his druthers, he would sculpt all his fabled clients into what he calls the Sy Devore All-American Look. Jackets, cut a good inch and a half shorter than the average, have square shoulders and single buttons. There is no handkerchief pocket-Sy hates bulges. Trousers have frontier pockets (like dungarees), no hip pockets, no cuffs, no belt (or a half belt in cloth), and are three inches trimmer than a standard size at the knee. Sy recommends leather boots to go with all this. The overall impression is a kind...
...this, is a frustrated man: he has yet to sell Gary Grant so much as an unmonogrammed handkerchief. "He," sighs Sy, "is the only one I want to dress...
...raised my hand - my trembling hand, gripping my heart as handkerchief and waved and waved - and waved - but she turned her eyes away. -Gabriel Okara (Nigeria...
...Last month a gang of miners with a vague and perhaps imaginary grievance dragged a member of the legislature from his house, strapped a stick of dynamite to his body, and blasted him to bits. When his pregnant wife came running out of the house waving a white handkerchief, a miner shot her to death...
Uncle Tom, uncle, Tom, handkerchief-head, hanky-head. A subservient Negro (or lately, one who warns against violence in civil rights demonstrations...