Word: bonneted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DUTCH, by Theodore Bonnet (416 pp.; Doubleday...
...detective named Maitre De-liot (Michael Redgrave), who is a sort of cross between Hercule Poirot and Father Brown, with a dash of old man Karamazov thrown in. Deliot is a French lawyer, an ancient case-horse just about ready for pasture. A bachelor, from the bees in his bonnet to the flies on his vest, he is grimy, grouchy, up to his knees in litter, and almost down to his belt in beard...
Aboard the French liner Ile de France at a Manhattan pier, France's retiring Ambassador to the U.S. Henri Bonnet, 66, whose charm and Gallic wit have entranced Washington for the past nine years, and Mme. Bonnet, a fixture on lists of the world's best-dressed women, were seen off for home amidst the popping of champagne corks. Just before sailing time, Diplomat Bonnet got a sisterly farewell kiss from a longtime family friend, glamorous Grandma Marlene Dietrich. Said he feelingly to his well-wishers: "I thank you for the happiest years in our lives...
...years as France's Ambassador to the U.S., Henri Bonnet has developed a great admiration for the U.S. press. Last week, on the eve of his retirement and return to France, 66-year-old Ambassador Bonnet good-naturedly told members of Washington's National Press Club...
Getting along with the U.S. press, Bonnet found, was one of his most important diplomatic objectives: "The greatest skill an ambassador requires is to be able to emerge from a visit at the State Department and reveal something which puts the American press on his side. But this is a very delicate business. Solemn promises of complete discretion have been exchanged only a few minutes before. Propriety demands that they be respected until the evening...