Word: bonneted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With the French Government facing a staggering budgetary deficit of some six billion francs ($235,000,000 gold, $360,000,000 Roosevelt), knife-faced Finance Minister Georges Bonnet was as glum last week as Louis XV when that profligate and nearly bankrupt King was visited by the sly Venetian Adventurer Giovanni Casanova de Seingalt...
...system. This Louis XV promptly introduced into France, with Casanova as manager, later conferred on him a pension which enabled him to visit and seduce elegant ladies in all parts of Europe. Until recently the Third Republic has scorned to stoop to lotteries, but two months ago Finance Minister Bonnet decided he must take the plunge. Last week he put on sale a batch of 2,000,000 lottery tickets, soon to be followed by four similar batches...
Each ticket is priced at 100 francs ($3.92 gold, $6 Roosevelt), thus making the total lottery stake one billion francs. If all this were velvet M. Bonnet could wipe out one-sixth of the deficit at one stroke. Instead 60% of the lottery proceeds must flow back to the public in prizes, 10% will pay expenses, only 30% going to M. Bonnet's Treasury to help pay French War veterans' pensions...
...city's pressmen, publishers and advertisers had a band led by a dancing Indian in a war bonnet (see p. 50 ). Walter Damrosch was with the radio people; little old Charles Winninger led the actors. Samuel ("Roxy") Rothafel's costumed choristers from Radio City cut capers on the asphalt. Paramount had four imitation Marx Brothers and six Mae Wests. Some Army signalers paused in front of the reviewing stand to fly 50 pigeons back to Washington with greetings to the President. The Stock Exchange crowd had a band of Scotch pipers. The Cotton Exchange people had a band...
...Tours last week. In the same held another team pulled a heavy plow under the vicious prodding of a gold-laced Spanish matador. Out in the same farm's kitchen garden a Chinese mandarin was watering the kohlrabi. In the stable reporters found a sullen Frenchman in the bonnet and kilts of a Gordon Highlander forking manure...