Word: bonneted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...privately printed, distributes and reads to his friends. Near Piping Rock is the site of an oldtime Indian trading post which fires Poet Ryan's imagination. One day lately he was observed at this site, a quiet spot in the woods. His yellow Rolls-Royce (with burnished metal bonnet) was parked nearby. He was clad in a coonskin coat with Daniel Boone cap to match, sitting on the ground trapper-style, thoughtfully making a little camp fire...
...piano in the centre to play one of their best known songs while the eleven other Alleymen and an orchestra joined in. The dressy audience in the new Waldorf-Astoria Ballroom could not contain itself. It managed to listen quietly to Percy Wenrich play "Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet" and to Raymond Hubbell's "Poor Butterfly," Arthur Schwartz's "Dancing in the Dark." But when Gus Edwards started "School Days" it was too much for them. They all started singing. They sang "You're My Everything" with Harry Warren, "Charmaine" with Erno Rapee, "Body & Soul" with...
...said: "During that week nature is waking her sleeping children from their winter sleep, the invigorating breezes are blowing, the flowers are bursting into bloom, the trees are fixing to robe themselves in their glorious garments of green, and the peaceful valleys and hillsides are spreading their blue bonnet carpet...
...keeps it. His chief mechanic, Leo Villa, helped him start the motors five miles above the measured mile course. Sitting low, looking through a streamlined pocket of glass at a motor-revolution gauge which looks like a rifle sight on the profile of Blue Bird's is-ft. bonnet, he gathered speed going south along the beach. Nearing the grandstand at the start of the mile, the sound of Bine Bird's motor was first a low undertone to the warm purr of the surf, then a thundering roar, then a mighty shout of speed and wind...
...most elusive miracle of all-bring the dead back to life." After reading Wellington you will admit that Guedalla knows his business, has done his duty. Almost painfully witty in conversation, in writing he-is refreshingly so. Other books: The Second Empire, Masters & Men, Fathers of the Revolution, Palmerston, Bonnet & Shawl...