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...newsreels, which have broken more candidates than the old two-thirds rule, he can pose without a qualm. Even with an Indian bonnet or a dead fish, the crudest newsreel props of all, he is neither overwhelming nor silly. He can wear striped pants without looking as if 1) they are rented, or 2) he approves of them...
...numerous poses: as a Moulin Rouge spectator, in conventional garb leaving the cabaret, dancing a pas seul with her skirts flung high to reveal legs of startling thinness. Lautrec's most famous poster, Le Divan Japonais, featured Avril with her flaming red hair under a large black bonnet, listening with a toppered escort to a song by the disease, Yvette Guilbert...
...Lieut. General Hugh A. Drum, for forwarding to General Douglas Mac-Arthur, went a war bonnet from the Indian Confederation of America. Same week MacArthur broke into the British Who's Who. To Joseph Stalin (who already has a bonnet from the Indian Confederation), the new Who's Who gave eight times as many lines as he had last year (5 to 40). Other newcomers besides MacArthur: Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Harry Hopkins, Lend-Lease Coordinator W. Averell Harriman, Admiral Harold R. Stark. Donald Nelson was in, but not Leon Henderson; Edward R. Stettinius...
...short, plump secretary, the Gestapo men said disgustedly: "Ach, the Salvation Army's coming!" To them she was a constant source of ridicule; to her fellow prisoners-Poles, Frenchmen, a few Englishwomen and some British sailors-she was a source of fascination. She never took her Army bonnet off in public. In the thrice-daily exercise periods (two hours in the morning, four in the afternoon, one after supper) she strode determinedly around the schoolyard, her secretary always three paces behind. The secretary would advance to her superior's side only on a curt signal, when Colonel Booth...
...suggestion, as set down by Professor Glueck, would of necessity force the placing of the war guilt on the Axis nations, since, under his plan, no members of the United Nations would be tried for war crimes. In view of the pre-war manipulations of Messrs. Chamberlain and Bonnet, who represented the temper of Britain and France at the time, such a stand would be both false and farcical. The trial of men for actual war crimes would involve various legal technicalities, such as the definition of a "war crime" and the decision as to whether subordinates should be held...