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...babies first appear yelling lustily as Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe lifts them from their incubators. He recognizes each one by weight and appearance as he calls out her name: Yvonne, Annette, Marie (in a bonnet), Cecile, Emilie. A nurse places them in a row on a table. Only Yvonne ceases squalling to yawn during the 30 seconds all five are in view...
Civilians ran for cover as officers roared "Get off the streets!" An old woman in a black bonnet jaywalked directly in front. From mourning Her Majesty had to turn to machine-guns of a Dutch platoon. She went down with two bullets in her back. "Merciful Jesus!" cried a householder. "She was deaf...
...Your Old Gray Bonnet" (1909) was written by Percy Wenrich whose father was postmaster in Joplin, Mo. Wenrich and his lyricist, the late Stanley Murphy, intended their song to be "Put On Your Old Sunbonnet," sang it for Publisher Jerome Remick who got the words twisted. Wenrich wrote other songs: "Moonlight Bay," "When You Wore A Tulip," "Where Do We Go From Here?" Today, revenue from the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers where he has a permanent Class A rating pays for Wenrich's rent, lunches, his bar bill at the Lamb's Club...
...detectives called at his apartment, but Samuel Insull was not there. Immediately a storm of rumors broke. From the Cabinet of Premier Tsaldaris to the couscous merchants on the sidewalks every Athenian had a story of his own. Samuel Insull had been smuggled out of the hotel in a bonnet and shawl, disguised as a charwoman. Samuel Insull had been spirited out of the country by a gang of Rumanians. Samuel Insull had been hauled to the top of a cliff in a basket to take refuge with the monks of Mount Athos. Finally from the harbor master of Piraeus...
...showed that the King-Emperor was in residence. By desperate maneuvers Flying Officer Smith was barely able to lift his plane over the Palace roof and miss the flagstaff by inches as spectators screamed and scattered. "God save the King!" gasped a pink-cheeked old lady in a black bonnet as Air man Smith disappeared, his backfiring motor carrying him over Marble Arch to plunk down safely in Hyde Park. Said the King, according to Palace officials: "I saw it from a window. I thought it would crash either on the roof or in the courtyard." ¶Day before, hard...