Word: bonneted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henri Bonnet was the logical Frenchman. In an illogical world, the astute historian and ambassador moved warily and worriedly. He spoke with a Frenchman's concern for le mot juste, suggested compromises with a quiet desperation. In his suite at the Hotel Pierre he served his colleagues sherry and petits fours. At week's end, no one was more relieved than he that UNO still held the Big Three...
Very different is the report of the ghost of a little old French lady in a faded green bonnet who tiptoes through the rooms of an old plantation at night. "Tirelessly, she journeys from bedchamber to bedchamber, raising mosquito baires and peering hopefully into the face of each sleeper." It is her doom never to find the face she seeks...
Touché. If the remark bothered le grand Charlie, he did not show it. Next morning it was his turn. He met U.S. newsmen at the sumptuous residence of Ambassador Henri Bonnet. He seemed completely at ease, smiled as a newsman brought up the President's remarks. Oh, yes, said Charlie, he could understand the U.S. President's being "struck" by some stories in France's newspapers. He, himself, had also been frequently "struck" by stories about him in the U.S. press...
...time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things: of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--and of how John Huntington has taken off his straw hat and put on his Easter bonnet, and made the change very successfully. "Alice in Wonderland" is, as always, very pleasant nonsense...
Doctor of Laws: Henry Bonnet French Ambassador to the United States: "The ambassador of a nation foremost for centuries in the arts and letters: we welcome the representative of a free and gallant people...