Word: bonneted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ambassador to Paris, Count Fernand de Brinon, was back there from Berlin with Hitler's terms of "collaboration." The Marshal anxiously awaited the coming to Vichy of this onetime payoff man for Georges Bonnet who now held France's fate in his brief case. Hitler's terms were reported to include a demand that German troops be allowed to cross Tunisia from Sicily for an attack on the British in Libya. This proposition was made to the Marshal by his ousted Vice Premier Pierre Laval when the two met at La Ferté a fortnight ago. Then...
...Geneva, N. Y. (now Syracuse University Medical School). At Geneva, the entire student body had demanded her admission. A Boston medical journal spoke of her with arch masculinity as "a pretty little specimen of the feminine gender . . . [who] comes into the class with great composure, takes off her bonnet . . . exposing a fine phrenology." In due time Elizabeth graduated, became the first woman M.D. in the U. S. Dr. Blackwell opened a hospital in New York (Infirmary for Women and Children), moved to England after the Civil War. She be came an honored London professor, died at Hastings...
...Woman's Masonic College of Covington, Ga., now out of existence, where my grandmother received her A.B. degree in 1854, the prescribed uniform was "a sprigged challis" over hoops, with a demure green velvet poke bonnet tied under the chin...
...national election was as dated as last week's newsreel, as dull as last week's gossip. The local election was a different story. Unseated after twelve years was Los Angeles' redbaiting Republican District Attorney Buron Fitts, who has more titillating Hollywood scandal under his bonnet than a dog has fleas. With just an occasional heckle from the film colony's left wing because of his unvarying kindness to the industry's big shots, Fitts sashayed complacently through his duties without any qualms about serious opposition for his job. After election, Hollywood awoke to find...
Other Men of Good Will in that amorphous, hopeful group were the Frenchmen Daladier, Georges Bonnet, Yvon Delbos (whom Romains says he made Foreign Minister), Ambassador André Francois-Poncet; Belgian Cabinet Minister Henri de Man; presumably many whom Good Willman Romains does not name. They believed that "nothing good could ever come of war," devoted themselves to plotting peace coups which somehow never came off. The greatest of these plots was hatched by Henri...