Word: handkerchiefed
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...into his writing room and assaulted his correspondence. He answered immediately a few important letters, laid others aside for further consideration, hurled the remainder on the floor. At 4 a.m. he summoned his secretary, who found the great man impatiently striding the floor in a white dressing gown, a handkerchief bound round his head...
Rear Window (Paramount), just possibly the second most entertaining picture (after The 39 Steps) ever made by Alfred Hitchcock, is the movie equivalent of what boxing circles call "the handkerchief trick." The trick, as Philadelphia's Tommy Loughran used to play it, is simply to plant both feet on a standard-size pocket handkerchief, fold both hands behind the back, and fight a full three-minute round against a free-moving opponent without once taking the feet off the handkerchief...
...Rear Window, Director Hitchcock plants his camera on the esthetic handkerchief of a second-floor back room in Greenwich Village, to which a photographer (James Stewart )for one of the big picture magazines is confined with a broken leg. Inside the room the camera moves freely, but whenever it looks out the rear window, it is permitted to see only what the hero...
...curbed such outbreaks, let the applause run its course as McCarthy stared in blank surprise. When the uproar had subsided, Joe Welch, face drained white, rose from the committee table, silently walked past McCarthy and out into a corridor where he stood alone, dabbing at his eyes with a handkerchief...
...Final Secret. She is much reminded of her husband by a ruddy-faced, curly-haired visitor. As he kneels at her side, she instinctively knows that he once made love to her on the chaise longue. A more terrible parallel occurs when she starts spitting blood into her handkerchief and realizes that as Milly, she will...