Word: bonneted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...herself-that of Livvy, her imaginary niece. Artifice having restored the necessary ringlets, dashing Valentine conspires to his own defeat. After succumbing to her petticoat ambush, he saves the reputation of Miss Throssel by sending home the coquettish Livvy in the form of a bolster in shawl and bonnet, under the scandal-hungry eyes of all Quality Street...
...only half as long as the main channel of the Mississippi. Instead of being raised three feet like other levees, the "fuse plug" levees at the mouths of these floodways were left at the old level so floods would wash over them. Still a fourth protection was devised, the Bonnet Carre Spillway not far above New Orleans, to pour flood waters out of the main Mississippi channel into Lake Pontchartrain which is virtually an arm of the Gulf. Finally the whole river was shortened 100 miles by cutting off numerous loops and meanders, so that the flood waters would...
...that reason the Mississippi levees just below Cairo were in great danger. For that reason Memphis expected a flood 5 to 10 ft. above all previous records. For that reason 50,000 refugees from the lowlands were streaming into Memphis. Down at New Orleans the Bonnet Carre Spillway was opened two days before the water rose high enough to flow through it. First break in the Mississippi's walls came in a secondary levee at Bessie, Tenn., a few miles from Tiptonville, sent the flood surging across to cut off a bend in the river threatening little damage unless...
...have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." Act V was not Franklin Roosevelt's drive home in an open car with a half inch of water on the floor and Mrs. Roosevelt sitting beside him in the downpour, her new inauguration bonnet resembling a last year's bathing cap. It was not the buffet luncheon in the White House with 500 recently soaked notables. It was not the hour and a half spent in the reviewing stand-an $11,000 model of Andrew Jackson's home The Hermitage erected before...
...Great Church were 60 apple-cheeked college classmates of Her Royal Highness, a double line of cadets from The Netherlands Indies in grim trench helmets, a single line of Royal Navy Cadets in parade dress and "100,000 Dutch girls," thousands in national finery-not the everyday Dutch peasant bonnet but the gala holiday bonnet with embroidery and ornaments of actual gold, these representing solid Dutch peasant savings of many lifetimes. In The Netherlands nobody ever snatches or steals such ornaments, and woe to whoever should! Alighting, the bride & bridegroom went indoors to be united in civil marriage...