Handkerchiefs Follow the lead of older generations and keep a few handkerchiefs handy.
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Supporters of a woman's right to choose identify themselves at regular street protests with green handkerchiefs, while those who are against abortion carry blue handkerchiefs.
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Handkerchiefs go by many names and come in many sizes.
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Empty out the handkerchiefs you'll find inside, and take it.
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WOULD YOU GO BACK TO HANDKERCHIEFS DURING THE CORONA CRISIS?
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Lind fans could buy Jenny Lind dolls, gloves, scarves, and handkerchiefs.
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More casual lifestyles took their toll on lace tablecloths and handkerchiefs.
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Handkerchiefs can pretty safely be categorized as a vestige of another time.
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Sure enough, every photo showed demonstrators covering their faces with handkerchiefs and sunglasses.
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Thanks for the nice sweater and handkerchiefs and particularly for the note and card.
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Women wave fans for a cool breeze, and men dry themselves off with handkerchiefs.
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After the final whistle, many fans waved white handkerchiefs to show their displeasure with him.
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A second list has further products, including handkerchiefs and hosepipes, tableware, dishwashers and certain trucks.
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When the photographers started coming, the boys were told to cover their faces with handkerchiefs.
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At our evening activities, Jamie was frequently flagging, via colored handkerchiefs placed in her back pocket.
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They then tied red handkerchiefs around their necks celebrating the start of the week-long fiesta.
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Puzzled by a display of colored handkerchiefs, he asks a sales assistant what they are for.
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Don't break out the mourning clothes and handkerchiefs just yet — Aretha Franklin is alive and well.
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Relatives tucked cotton handkerchiefs among the packages of dried mangoes and underwear they sent from overseas.
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Like hammers and handkerchiefs, umbrellas are too ancient to have a single, agreed-upon origin story.
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Some wore handkerchiefs across their faces as they breathed air tainted by the smell of sulphur.
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The ones she had brought had all been rejected and replaced—even the twelve new handkerchiefs.
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Forced to wear "tignons", or handkerchiefs, their slave status was reinforced and their beauty stifled and criminalized.
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Eco Hanky's cotton handkerchiefs are super absorbent, hypo-allergenic, and made out of a moisture-wicking material.
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She recalled the tables at the reception having a horseshoe motif, and invitations hand-sewn onto handkerchiefs.
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As the threat of coronavirus becomes more imminent, it's important to note that handkerchiefs aren't virus-impregnable.
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I began to sew objects, words and portraits of loved ones into handkerchiefs and remnants of felt.
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You get six reusable handkerchiefs made from organic cotton, carried inside a silicone, dishwasher safe carrying case.
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Women dressed in all-white outfits waved handkerchiefs and sang local songs as they danced in tribute.
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Pro-choice supporters usually wear green handkerchiefs at demonstrations, while those who are against abortion carry blue ones.
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Outside the chamber, women holding green handkerchiefs, the color of the pro–abortion rights campaign, broke into tears.
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At the same time, hundreds of women waving light blue handkerchiefs celebrated that the bill had been rejected.
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Some younger women interviewed Friday said that they did not own knytblusar but improvised with scarves and handkerchiefs.
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Folding handkerchiefs in his father's linen shop, Schwarzman dreamed of a larger life, filled with purpose and adventure.
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Conservative Catholics and evangelicals, rallying with blue handkerchiefs, have campaigned for the abortion ban to remain in place.
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The chorus and orchestra rose behind her, waving a thousand white handkerchiefs, and before her the entire audience rose, waving hats and handkerchiefs, clapping hands and cheering, and protracting the demonstration, while the little lady in her tasteful dress bowed low and often, acknowledging the plaudits of a whole city.
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The second line dances, steps, flags handkerchiefs and pumps umbrellas in honor of the person just laid to rest.
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Instead, the clothespeg came only just in time to pinion Shelley's tear-stained handkerchiefs from the wild west wind.
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A Manhattan debutante named Mary Phelps Jacobs assembled the first modern bra in 1910 with two handkerchiefs and ribbon.
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"[Handkerchiefs] record what we were going through in our lives during that time," Ann Mahony said over the phone.
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An art exhibition of 1,600 handkerchiefs that highlights the disappearance and murders of women in the city of Guadalajara.
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Jones and her crew wore helmets and yellow Nomex fire-retardant suits; yellow handkerchiefs covered their mouths and necks.
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People crowded around a statue of St. Joseph, pressing bare hands or handkerchiefs against its base, hoping for blessings.
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Die Kränken will also present a video homage to the Black Pipe, an LA gay leather bar that was raided by the police in 1972, and display screen-printed handkerchiefs that recall the "hanky code," a surreptitious method of communicating sexual desire by placing color-coded handkerchiefs in one's rear pants pocket.
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You've probably seen magicians pull playing cards from thin air, make silk handkerchiefs change colors, or cause cigarettes to vanish.
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A Reuters witness said five or six people were on a balcony on one floor, with some waving white handkerchiefs.
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Vets found plastic bags, used coffee and noodle packets, rubber gloves, handkerchiefs, underwear and a plastic rope in its stomach.
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There are terrific exceptions in the second gallery: spotlights on paños chicanos, which are drawings on handkerchiefs, and envelope drawings.
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And poor Beth (Kate Wetherhead), draped in what appear to be damp handkerchiefs, has just been ghosted by her husband.
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The handkerchiefs were placed in your back pocket, essentially, and depending on the color, symbolized a sexual fetish or a position.
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Outside the hospital, a group of protesters carrying light blue handkerchiefs held a vigil as a light drizzle blanketed the city.
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Embroidered handkerchiefs stitched with the names and stories of individuals lost to the cartel war in Mexico fluttered in the lobby.
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The T-shirts and handkerchiefs worn by the women who wait outside the theater designate the fan clubs of specific stars.
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Many protesters wore gas masks or tied handkerchiefs over their mouths and noses to protect them from clouds of tear gas.
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Touched, he told the children to come back the next day, when he would drop them candy, using handkerchiefs as parachutes.
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As early as the first century BC, the Roman writer Catullus mentions people carrying handkerchiefs to wipe their noses or foreheads.
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When Hattie died in the early 1970s, the artist inherited a trunk filled with personal effects: letters, family photographs, handkerchiefs, trinkets.
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"You open up a drawer, it's got my grandfather's underwear in it and his handkerchiefs — nothing's been removed," Mr. Rower said.
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ROUEN, France — After the chemical factory fire, the few who ventured out clutched their noses or covered their faces in handkerchiefs.
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"Devotees believe being able to touch the image or have their handkerchiefs or towels touch it will bring blessings," the CBCP said.
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As we head into June, don't be surprised if you catch a few handkerchiefs walking around your local Pride parade and festivities.
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"Somebody hand up a bunch of Kleenex and five handkerchiefs because I'm going to need them during this speech," Mr. Kaine said.
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For fun he and friends sniffed lighter fluid from handkerchiefs in back alleys or devised ways to steal from ice-cream vans.
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Spectators in Whitehall rushed to dip their handkerchiefs in Charles I's blood (in 2008 one would materialise at a genteel auction in Gloucestershire).
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In the past year, thousands of pro-choice activists have protested in the streets holding green handkerchiefs to symbolize the abortion rights movement.
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It did not say why the order was made now, but goods requiring labeling include vacuum cleaners, crayons, rubber footwear, mattresses and handkerchiefs.
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At the age of 9 I was unfamiliar with shoes, with handkerchiefs, with combs; I did not know what school or discipline was.
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"Get Out Your Handkerchiefs," which won Blier an Oscar in 21996, will get a full run beginning on March 2718-2513-22547, quadcinema.
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Last weekend, I used a free online pattern to sew masks for myself and family members, using old handkerchiefs, shirts and elastic hair ties.
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Last weekend, I used a free online pattern to sew masks for myself and family members, using old handkerchiefs, shirts and elastic hair ties.
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Still, thousands of people rallied in Santiago last month to demand an overhaul of abortion laws, even adopting the green handkerchiefs popularized in Argentina.
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And hey, visit your local LGBTQ+ fetish-themed boutiques to pick up some for yourself; though predominantly used by gay men, handkerchiefs know no gender.
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During that trip, I'd lingered over one of the Drake's elephant-print handkerchiefs, and bemoaned that there wasn't a scarf available in the same pattern.
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During one recent sting, she caught an elderly merchant, who had just embroidered "Olympics 240" on a series of handkerchiefs, hanging one in her shop window.
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Many protesters wore gas masks or tied handkerchiefs over their mouths and noses to protect them from clouds of tear gas that lingered in the air.
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Inside the packed courtrooms, the robed lawyers stood 15 deep, mopping the sweat from their foreheads with folded handkerchiefs as they waited to present their cases.
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Of what possible use is tatting, which my great-grandmother sewed to the edges of handmade handkerchiefs, when Kleenex comes in those little purse-size packages?
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As he waved his arms and clenched his fists, sections of Santiago Bernabéu Stadium waved white handkerchiefs and called for Real Madrid's president, Florentino Pérez, to resign.
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Going back to the idea that the bad smells created disease when there were particularly smelly periods in the summer, they would cover their faces with handkerchiefs.
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But of course there are powerful men in Hollywood preying on vulnerable young women, using and disposing of them as if they were handkerchiefs instead of humans.
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Women clutched purses on their laps, and a few riders held handkerchiefs over their noses to keep from breathing the acrid air streaming through the open windows.
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Every accessory and ornament — the hats, the gloves, the shoes, the stockings, the handbags, the jewelry, the ties, the handkerchiefs, the cuff links — fall under her purview.
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He cut a dapper figure, making the rounds of cocktail parties in snug-fitting three-piece suits with brightly colored silk handkerchiefs jutting from his breast pocket.
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His father, Robert, was a foreman at the Packard Electric Company, and his mother, Donna, a housewife who brought in extra money by embroidering handkerchiefs for sale.
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AS A CHILD growing up in Philadelphia, Stephen Schwarzman had a part-time job selling handkerchiefs to old ladies at his father's shop, Schwarzman's Curtains and Linens.
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It turned out that she had been surviving by sucking liquid-soaked handkerchiefs and receiving mash from her daughter, communicated, birdlike, in the form of a kiss.
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No more undertakers in black suits clutching handkerchiefs, old buddies weeping in corners, telling off-color stories, nipping shots, no more covered mirrors, black dresses, skullcaps and crucifixes.
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Essity is the world's second-biggest maker of consumer tissue such as toilet paper and handkerchiefs, under a wide range of brands including Lotus, Edet, Tempo and Vinda.
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And when she moved into a medley of second-line songs and called for people to wave something in the air — handkerchiefs, hats — thousands of listeners happily obeyed.
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The mob of men, handkerchiefs covering their faces, entered the jail, opened the cell, and demanded McNeeley and one of his cellmates, 23-year-old Harold Venters, step forward.
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Television pictures showed the men, their faces covered with handkerchiefs, coming out of a police station in the border town of Moreh before being turned over to Myanmar authorities.
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" Meanwhile, Hazel Dávalos of the similarly aligned Bordeamos por la Paz in Ciudad Juárez, adds that the handkerchiefs work to remind the viewer that victims "are people, not numbers.
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In 21965, he swapped the foreign correspondent's fatigues for the dapper suits and silk handkerchiefs of "21968 Minutes," American TV's first news and entertainment hybrid with a magazine format.
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"I am an atheist, but I say that if God exists, then it would be green," Solanas said, referring to the colored handkerchiefs carried by those who support legalizing abortion.
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Eileen watched the bus pull into the depot and the passengers debark, stiff and groggy, into the crisp November air, their breath flashing like handkerchiefs in front of their faces.
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Women with ruby red lips and coiffed hair peer off into the distance, their eyes looking to chase after rumbling aircrafts while their fingers loop through handkerchiefs out of frame.
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To their branches my neighbor, a retired Statistician, has clothes-pegged Slips of paper, white pocket handkerchiefs Embroidered with the words: The apples are not ripe, please don't pick them .
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Church members have been known to carry handkerchiefs blessed by Mr. Lee and to sprinkle themselves with water from a well in his hometown, believing that it possessed healing power.
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In the 1840s, the charismatic performances by pianist Franz Liszt inspired mobs of young women to fight over shreds of his gloves, handkerchiefs, and even cigar stumps to keep as mementos.
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"Efficiency efforts are according to plan and we have achieved significant cost savings," said Essity, which is also the global No.2 in tissue products such as toilet paper and handkerchiefs.
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N'DJAMENA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In a dusty alleyway in Chad's capital, veiled women sell peanuts laid out on handkerchiefs and children bring home firewood on donkeys, as if from another era.
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Support Surface artists often used handkerchiefs, gauze, tents, tarps and unstretched canvas to create works that hang on walls, unroll onto the floor, or sit on the ground like a sculpture.
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At the windows overlooking the square, some older villagers wondered whether they would live long enough to see her again in another seven years, and dried their eyes with white handkerchiefs.
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Air pollution became so extreme that Los Angeles considered declaring a state of emergency during its 201523s "smog sieges," when noxious clouds forced residents to breathe through handkerchiefs or even gas masks.
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LOVER Columbia's display includes the Hamiltons' wedding handkerchiefs, and the New-York Historical Society is showing off the famous "nut-brown maid" love letter Hamilton wrote in 1780 to his future wife.
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Ahead of the vote, supporters rallied in Uruguay, Brazil and neighboring Chile, where they gathered in front of the Argentine Embassy in Santiago, chanting and wearing the green handkerchiefs that symbolized the movement.
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The most coded is perhaps handkerchiefs (using a system of colors and placement to suggest not only homosexuality, but also what you like to get up to sexually), but earrings were a little simpler.
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It should not be embroidered on such articles as cushions or handkerchiefs and the like, printed or otherwise impressed on paper napkin or boxes or anything that is designed for temporary use and discard.
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The creature had been immortalised by Beatrix Potter in her tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, the tiny laundress who stole (but only to wash and starch them till they shone) the handkerchiefs of little girls.
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Given that your response to the early scenes will probably be surprised, riotous laughter, you are equally likely to find yourself shedding discreet tears — the kind that cry out for cambric handkerchiefs — by the end.
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Decked out in white t-shirts and trousers stained pink by the wine that flows freely at the festival, the crowd danced and waved traditional red handkerchiefs bearing the image of the local patron saint.
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Ronald Barrett, a scholar of black American rituals of death, attributed the practice to a West African tradition in which mourners carried handkerchiefs, scarves and other ephemera bearing the names and faces of their dead.
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At a community barbecue in the Nottingham Forest neighborhood, residents had bandages and handkerchiefs wrapped around calves and shins, where dirty water had infected a scratch or where their waders had rubbed their skin raw.
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And it's also a piece of criticism: "Heartland" (1985) is one of Schapiro's famous femmages (a combination of "female" and "collage"), for which she gathered fabrics, handkerchiefs, ribbon, and bits of paper from her home.
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Men surrounded the carriage that was pulled by ropes, while the crowd waved towels and handkerchiefs in a sign of praise to the life-sized image of Jesus kneeling with a cross on his shoulder.
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Handkerchiefs may seem like a relic of the past, but they're actually incredibly useful when it comes to cleaning up small spills and messes, blowing your nose, and limiting your use of tissues and paper towels.
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Cynthia Carlson's wallpaper, Jane Kaufman's feathers and beads, Valerie Jaudon's seductive grids, Tony Robbin's reliance on kimono patterns, Miriam Schapiro's incorporation of embroidered handkerchiefs, among others, were grouped together as an efflorescence of the decorative impulse.
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Accessorized with purple-trimmed handkerchiefs, pocket watch chains and selfie-sticks, the men, in their 20s and 30s, hold photoshoots at local beauty spots, posting the results on Instagram where they have more than 60,000 followers.
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The design that had lured the store's buyer was a bra-and-bikini set that Ms. Epstein created from Victorian-era handkerchiefs she found in a bridal shop and gave to Ms. Orzeck as a birthday gift.
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In his sewing with thread or copper wire on crepe, velvet, cotton or voile, stitching takes the place of brush strokes and the works become stand-ins for objects in everyday life: satchels, handkerchiefs and embroidery samplers.
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Little white-collared capelets embroidered like antique handkerchiefs — genteel versions of the superhero standard that also appeared, longer and with a beaded Art Deco argyle for evening — were the focus of swirling mid-calf dresses and coats.
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Sure, Chuck Bass' purple suits and patterned handkerchiefs were inspired by Westwick's British style, but it was also a rebellion from the Jersey Shore uniform of shorts and T-shirts that was all the rage at the time.
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The black-faced figures, with swollen red lips and handkerchiefs tied around their heads, were initially created during the late 19th and early to mid 20th centuries, and were specifically for a white audience, as comical conversation pieces.
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On Wednesday evening, women wearing the traditional Muslim face veil, known as a niqab, and full coverage burqas were joined by dozens of supporters wearing makeshift coverings and handkerchiefs tied across their faces at a protest in central Copenhagen.
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We take it for granted, thinking of the poverty-stricken thieves, hanged for stealing handkerchiefs in eighteenth-century London, that the argument of the "The Beggar's Opera" is not wrong: even when not explicitly political, crime can have an implicit politics.
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From a painstakingly tidy square comprised of her mother's carefully folded handkerchiefs to an assortment of greeting cards and letters addressed to her mother, Sandoval seems to suggest that these possessions have taken on an otherworldly significance when stripped of their quotidian use.
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For long hours, thousands of supporters wearing green handkerchiefs that represent the effort to legalize abortion and opponents wearing light blue braved the heavy rain and cold temperatures in Argentina&aposs winter to watch the debate on large screens set up outside Congress.
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On Wednesday, demonstrators rallied in support of the Argentine bill in Uruguay, Mexico, Peru, and neighboring Chile, where they gathered in front of the Argentine Embassy in Santiago, chanting and wearing the green handkerchiefs that became the symbol of Argentina's abortion rights movement.
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Widowed young, turned away by her husband's impoverished people, with three daughters to raise and only the needlework to keep them, monogrammed handkerchiefs and lace-edged linen tablecloths, a life beyond my powers of narrative comprehension, notations I cannot translate from ancient script.
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To be taken apart in the Clásico by such a score, against a Barcelona team in which Lionel Messi could only play a cameo role after an injury, brought out the white handkerchiefs from the fans, the ultimate sign of disapproval from Madrid's supporters.
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In the final episode, Mike, Lucas, Dustin, Max, and Steve enter the tunnels to lure the demodogs away from Eleven and Hopper while the duo attempts to close a giant gate to the Upside Down, some of them decked out with handkerchiefs and swimming goggles.
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" He graduated from Elmont Memorial High School on Long Island, just across the Queens border, after which, he said: "My mother put together a portfolio which was made of anything I drew on — handkerchiefs, scraps, whatever — and put it literally into a brown paper bag.
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Greeted at the airport by President Juan Manuel Santos as attendees waved white handkerchiefs, the Argentine pope hopes his presence will help build bridges in a nation torn apart by bitter feuding over a peace accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
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Police switchboards were jammed by frightened callers asking about protective measures; in a single Newark block, 20 families rushed out of their homes with wet handkerchiefs and towels over their faces; and college students fought over telephones to call their parents to come get them.
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Saar's great-aunt Hattie Parson Keys was like a grandmother to her, and when she passed away in 1975, the artist acquired one of her trunks that included the lace handkerchiefs she later incorporated into a series of neutral-toned collages created between 2001 and 53.
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To create transCoder's framework, Blas took cues from the slang and hanky codes—systems in which gay and bisexual men wore color-coded handkerchiefs to indicate sexual interests—of LGBT communities in the '60s and '70s, which used invented language to subvert the conventions of mainstream culture.
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Some of them jostled and climbed onto the carriage as it was pushed and pulled by dozens of men holding ropes, while the crowd waved towels and handkerchiefs in a sign of praise to the kneeling life-sized image that carried a cross on one shoulder.
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YOKOHAMA, Japan — On any given night outside a theater in central Tokyo, hundreds of women can be found waiting in neat phalanxes, dressed in matching T-shirts or sporting identical colored handkerchiefs — the uniform of what may be the most rabidly loyal fans in Japanese entertainment.
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Prince's legacy has been celebrated by millions around the world, but perhaps there's no purer expression of love than to blast that freaky motherfucker all day and night from your home, pistachio shells jumping off the vibrating floors, purple curtains like handkerchiefs waving goodbye in the wind.
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From a painstakingly tidy square comprised of her mother's carefully folded handkerchiefs, to an assortment of greeting cards and letters addressed to her mother, Sandoval seems to suggest — and perhaps Gallerneaux would agree — that stripped of their quotidian use, they have taken on an otherworldly significance: every object haunted.
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Yet much in the manner of its improbable romantic "Twilight Zone"- style plot, "Groundhog Day" seems guaranteed to have the skeptics waving (and using) white handkerchiefs long before its final curtain, while transforming Mr. Karl into the top-of-the-heap musical star he has long deserved to be.
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In that one small, sturdy leather gripsack she managed to pack an astonishing array of items, including a silk bodice, three veils, a pair of slippers, a toiletry set, an inkstand, pens, paper, needles and thread, a dressing gown, a tennis blazer, a flask and drinking cup, several changes of underwear and handkerchiefs.
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CreditCreditCaroline Tompkins for The New York Times Before converting a set of handkerchiefs into a bra and panties that began a 40-year career for her and her best friend, Gale Epstein dabbled in many varieties of D.I.Y. "I had a lot of stuff from her," said Lida Orzeck, 21986, Ms. Epstein's business partner and longtime friend.
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The film is so popular in Korea that it has inspired an extensive community of fans of the kind usually reserved for teen K-pop idols, with a bulletin board devoted to fan fiction, fan-made tribute art, badges, stickers, handkerchiefs and stationery, letterheads and even a rap song with dialogue from the movie set to hip-hop beats.
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I'm in Coyoacán, Mexico City and in front of this patchworked web of handkerchiefs, some black, some white, some pink, sit a group of women—Elia Andrade, her sister Tania Andrade and Regina Méndez (plus her tiny xoloitzcuintle dog, Tonalli)—who together make up the founding members of the Fuentes Rojas collective, a group dedicated to reclaiming public space through peaceful protest.
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Going Zero Waste has a post that includes some basic tips for going zero waste that are pretty easy for almost everyone to do — like using reusable water bottles instead of plastic ones and bringing tote bags with you when you go grocery shopping so you don't have to get a plastic bag — and some that are a little less mainstream, like carrying around handkerchiefs instead of using tissues.
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Canada: Cheese, pizza, quiche, chocolate, whiskies, toilet paper, paper towels, strawberry jam, ketchup, mustard, yogurt, lawn mowers, refrigerators, washing machines, maple syrup, beer kegs, mineral water, fresh orange juice, mayonnaise, salad dressing, automatic dishwasher detergents, cucumbers, gherkins, ball point pens, felt-tipped pens, plywood, bobbins, roasted coffee, licorice candy, toffee, hair spray, shaving creams, soaps, candles, kitchenware, manicure and pedicure preparations, handkerchiefs, facial tissues, printed postcards, some insecticides, iron products, sailboats, some chairs, mattresses, plastic bags, sleeping bags, playing cards, soy sauce, and forms of aluminum and steel.
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Beyond the battlefield, the theatrical power and pathos of the conflict surely outruns any dramatist's imagination: the abrupt arrival of the septuagenarian Benjamin Franklin in Paris to woo the French monarchy into an alliance with radical republicans; the 100,000 smallpox deaths in North America from 17753 to 1782; those white men sitting in Philadelphia in the summer of 1776, lashing at horseflies with their handkerchiefs while carving up Thomas Jefferson's draft declaration to make it shorter and better; the many American families — Franklin's among them — ripped apart by irreconcilable political differences.
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The group of boys who had come on the bus had joined it, one next to the other, skis parallel, and every time it advanced—it was long and, instead of going straight, as in fact it could have, zigzagged randomly, sometimes upward, sometimes down—they stepped up or slid down sideways, depending on where they were, and immediately propped themselves on their poles again, often resting their weight on the neighbor below, or trying to free their poles from under the skis of the neighbor above, stumbling on skis that had got twisted, leaning over to adjust their bindings and bringing the whole line to a halt, pulling off windbreakers or sweaters or putting them back on as the sun appeared or disappeared, tucking strands of hair under their woollen headbands, or the billowing tails of their checked shirts into their belts, digging in their pockets for handkerchiefs and blowing their red, frozen noses, and for all these operations taking off and then putting back on their big gloves, which sometimes fell in the snow and had to be picked up with the tip of a pole.
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