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...Scot who spied a louse on a lady's bonnet in church had said it with more sprightliness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Oh, Jenny, Dinna Toss Your Head | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

Joseph Stalin won an Indian war bonnet of giant eagle feathers from the Indian Confederation of America, which voted him 1941's outstanding warrior, at a Manhattan powwow. The bonnet will be shipped to Moscow on the next boat leaving for Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Spats & Raps | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...crowded Washington set a different bee buzzing in the bonnet of Indiana's Representative Earl Wilson. He thought there ought to be a 10 p.m. curfew to help Heaven protect the Government working girl. The girls all said that Heaven was plenty of protection, thank you very much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Are You a Parasite? | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...broke out. Agents of the Department-B type also got such unbribable men as Pétain and Weygand where they wanted them. Despite the pre-war Parisian wisecrack, "Did you know that our Foreign Minister is also in the pay of the French?," many reputable friends of Bonnet still cannot believe he was a traitor. Riess claims to know better, gives the reason why: Goebbels had in his possession "a rather large" canceled check which M. Bonnet had received from M. Stavisky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Improbabilities | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...mother wrote to ask if she could come down to see you, you told her what hat to wear, and if her figure was beyond the accepted standard, you suggested postponement. . . . Mr. Winston Churchill invited his old nurse down ... to her intense happiness; she arrived in an old poke bonnet, her figure had attained ample proportions, and Mr. Churchill walked arm-in-arm with her in the street! It is about the nicest thing a Harrow boy has ever done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Glory on the Hill | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

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