Word: bonneted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crown Jewels, Henry VIII's armor and the spot where Anne Boleyn lost her head. Playing up the mysterious Prisoner for all he was worth, London's Daily Express printed a picture showing Tower Green packed with spectators gawking at a tall soldierly figure in a Glengarry bonnet, inked out in silhouet. Even more tickets were sold at the news that the face under the Glengarry bonnet was young and good looking...
...m.p.h. you hear, not the roar of the motor, but a loud whistling made by the wind rushing into the cockpit where a vacuum might develop if there were not a small hole in the windshield. You see, through a pocket of glass, your car's long bonnet with a motor-revolution gauge a little to the right of where other cars have a radiator cap, outlined sharply against yellow sand. At one edge of your line of vision is a dark line made by a crowd of spectators and, on the other side, the flags 100 yd. apart...
Good at such juggling is the new Finance Minister, nimble Georges Etienne Bonnet, who plays with fair skill the fast, exciting Basque ball game of jai-alai. In 1919 Georges Bonnet served France as Chief of Demobilization, has written stacks of books on the most varied subjects: The Soul of a Soldier; Philosophy of Law; The Finances of France; Letters to a Bourgeois of 1914. Last week M. Bonnet proposed to juggle some four billion francs out of the deficit by suspending during the crisis amortization of the national sinking fund and by transferring the deficits of the French State...
...word and abandoned their food as she came down stairs to sell her famous miniature nickel-plated hatchets. Students pressed around her, offering her cigars and cigarettes, and feigning great surprise when she struck their smokes wrathfully to the ground. One student made a grab at her bonnet, but was unable to detach...
...Family Circle the Maurois irony is notably absent. Denise was the fiery daughter of a provincial bourgeois family. Her mother, nearly as often as she put on her bonnet, clapped horns on her husband. He was weak and intelligent, thought there was nothing to be done about it. But Denise and her sisters began to hate their mother as soon as they understood gossip. Denise, strongest of the family, left home as soon as she could, went away to school, then to Paris, where she took Fellow-Student Jacques as her lover. She hoped big things for Jacques, but when...