She bunched it up and tugged on the next, and the next, rolling the ribbons like volunteers had once rolled bandages during wartime.

It carried out such tasks as instructing schoolchildren on the "Holy war in China", and having women roll bandages for the war effort.

Ladies Aid Societies banded together to roll bandages and knit socks, trousers, and shirts for the soldiers.

He says he's got three tables scrubbed, two buckets of tar on the boil, six ladies rolling bandages and all he's had to deal with so far is a nose-bleed.

Charlotte came early and had 'a bit to eat' big enough to choke a horse, and now she's gone to the Red Cross to roll bandages, or whatever she does there on Wednesday mornings.

Granny Morkie started to roll bandages in a businesslike way.

Mr. Moran remembered learning to roll bandages and make splints at the firehouse, and helping attach Sheetrock to an apple mill truck to make the town's first ambulance.

After all, Fran Lebowitz said, it's not as if "anyone in Hollywood volunteered to roll bandages."

The women rolled bandages, made hospital garments, and took cookies, cakes, and sandwiches to soldiers who came through Sandy Springs on troop trains.

I had some first-aid courses, rolled bandages as a volunteer, and watched my husband operate a few times in emergencies.