Word: bonnet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ecole Militaire de Hollywood, Mr. Charles Boyer has been intrusted with the command. The first move will be a nation-wide series of lectures to American women's clubs. Boyer is just the man for the job. Daladier can bully the Chambre and make it take notice. Bonnet knows his finance. Weygand can play a campaign over his morning coffee. But only Boyer can do all three and make it exciting enough to pack a women's clubhouse...
...noisy, gaudy convening, the American Legion had its annual party last week with most of the world at war. Despite their routine horseplay which for four days turned Chicago upside down, the Legionnaires never quite achieved the hysteria of former conventions. The high was a veteran in a bonnet flourishing a baby's bottle...
...will in the world and the notion that Wolfe was "first of all, a poet" the publishers have anthologized 71 pieces of descriptive, rhapsodic and wistful prose from his novels and shorter works. The effect: that of sticking in a vase 71 feathers that belonged on an Indian war bonnet with wind...
...Cabinet were at least ten wounds, three Croix de Guerre, over a dozen citations for bravery. The men were all of Big Business color, but of technical shade: practical, juristic, masters of concrete planning rather than grandiose theorizing. Most important move aside from the shelving of Georges Bonnet was the creation of a Ministry of Armaments, and the selection of efficient, inordinately hardworking, high strung, impulsive Raoul Dautry, 59, to head it. He reorganized France's rattletrap State Railways, sinking French Line, and stalled airline Aeropostale all at once. During the last war he built military rail lines. Foch...
Removal of Foreign Minister Bonnet, whose name has been inextricably associated with Munich, to the Justice Ministry was at once a matter for the rejoicing of foreign opponents of appeasement like Sagittarius and for the dismay of French ones like radical Author Louis Aragon (Bells of Basel, Residential Quarter). Red Author Aragon was among the first to be called up, sent to the Front. The French are civilized. Search France in vain for concentration camps full of opposition leaders. These worthies were last week given every consideration, including the privilege of fighting-and dying-for France in front-line trenches...