Word: handkerchief
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...release. "It pleases me that everything should be forbidder," muses one of them. "I want to be forbidden to raise my little finger. I want exact count to be kept of my coughs, my glances, my sighs. I want no one to forget the slammed door, the lost handkerchief, the hidden cigarette, the broken shoelace; I want to be bound so tight that at the slightest movement the chains will bruise my flesh. I want to be pierced by light, I want to be absolutely pure...
...strong. Lines like deep parentheses bracket his thin lips; beneath them is a small chin, and beneath that is a big chin. Five-and-a-half feet high, close to 200 lbs. wide, he is swathed in a cautious dark suit from which peeps an embroidered breast-pocket handkerchief with a monogram: R.J.D...
This old man comes out on 'the stage in blue-blue suit, blue shirt, blue tie, blue handkerchief. But nothing else is blue. Everyone knows his true colors come in 14-corned gold, a spray of white lies and a streak of pale green envy. Abuse turns him purple, but he never bursts into flame. When he asks politely for his violin, for example, it is tossed in a high parabola from the wings and smashes at his feet. He turns to the audience and draws every living soul to his side with the glazed-over helpless look that...
Democratic side were packed almost beyond breathing. Up in the gallery, Joan Kennedy, seated with Rose Kennedy, dabbed at her eyes with a handkerchief while Husband Teddy was sworn in. Later, Teddy announced it as his aim to stay "out of the limelight, out of the headlines and out of the swimming pool...
Visitors who dropped in at No. 27 Rue de Fleurus in Paris in the 1930s occasionally found Gertrude Stein waving a delicate handkerchief at her dog. "Play Hemingway," she would say. "Be fierce." The dog would growl...