Word: bonneted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...years, announces the following program: "Veritas March." "On the Mail," and "Goofus," by the Banjo Club; Herbert's "Serenade," and "A Petits Pas" by the Mandolin Club; "Schneider's Band." The Gondoliers," and "Two Grenadiers" by the Vocal Club," "Make Believe," "Sophisticated Lady," "Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet," "Puddin' Head Jones," and "Indian Summer" by the Orchestra. As specialty presentations, Malcolm G. Holmes 3G, an accomplished violinist, will play a group of classical selections, and the famous Pyorrhean Sorority, now in its third season, will sing a group of humorous songs. Another feature on the program will...
From the first, last week, there was no doubt of the Bonnet Lottery's smashing success. Long before dawn impatient queues formed all over France in front of banks, post offices, tax-collection bureaus, tobacco shops. Doors opened at 9 a. m., Frenchmen shoved and fought to buy. By 9:30 every ticket in the first batch of 2,000,000 was sold and speculators were reselling them to disappointed latecomers at a 20% premium. Drawings to determine winners in the first batch will be held on Armistice Day in Paris' lofty, crescent-shaped Palais du Trocadero facing...
Since everyone knows that lottery methods cannot fill the bucket of France's deficit, crucial interest began to focus on the reassembling of the Chamber of Deputies next month. Writing in Le Capital last week former Finance Minister Louis Germain-Martin, no friend of his successor M. Bonnet, submitted a brutal analysis of the budget situation, proved that the Chamber can restore stability, but only by wholesale cuts in veterans' pensions and civil servants' salaries, by a drastic drive against chronic French income tax frauds, and by imposing new taxes so crushing that the Chamber seemed likely...