Word: bonneted
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...innocence, took Charlie's hat, wondering at the size or lack of it. Just as he was crossing the bridge along comes a gust of wind-you guessed it. Well, Robbie ran along the river bank for a half a mile, until finally Rityen's white war bonnet sailed glibly in to dock up below the footbridge. Ruffies and flourishes for Charlie...
Grandmother Sophia Jane had raised eleven children. "She wore a stiffly starched white chambray bonnet, with a round crown buttoned on a narrow brim." When the cling-peach tree bloomed in her Kentucky garden, she mused: "I have planted five orchards in three States, and now I see only one tree in bloom." Her numerous descendants and her aged servants thought she was the most wonderful, most terrifyingly efficient person alive...
...corruption of France's press began with domestic bribery. "Several times," writes Pertinax, "[Foreign Minister] Georges Bonnet tried to bribe L'Europe Nouvelle, of which I was editor in chief. Five hundred thousand francs would have been readily handed out to the owner for merely discarding one of our contributors whose satiric shafts pestered the Minister." But soon more sinister corrupters were at work...
...word and abandoned their food as she came down the stairs to sell her famous miniature nickel-plated batches. 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...
...that Franklin Roosevelt, on the legal advice of Francis Biddle, seized Montgomery Ward's Chicago plant, Pat McCarran pulled on his war bonnet. He sent a committee agent to Chicago, subpoenaed WLB files, and jumped into the headlines with a promise of a fearless, "nonpolitical" investigation. For three weeks he and West Virginia's G.O.P. Senator Chapman Revercomb mulled over their evidence. Last week they reported...