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Word: bracelet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Boles) is the one who sees her off at the station. All this is competently enough put together but, if tested by an emotional seismograph like the "Lie Detector," its graph would be full of dead spots. Shot: Greta Nissen asking her patron to buy her an emerald bracelet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 21, 1931 | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...Warner) shows a few of the tricks whereby an enterprising bellhop, equipped with light lingers and curly hair, can live handsomely on his wits. The bellhop (James Cagney) is so much interested in dishonesty that he keeps a scrapbook of variations of the badger game, methods of stealing diamond bracelets, false money transactions and likely methods of beating persons who think they can beat the races. By the practice of these wiles, he manages to keep luxurious quarters in the best hotels, preying mostly upon persons no more honest but less versatile than himself. But he is an over-confident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 14, 1931 | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

According to the latest statement from Boston Police headquarters the thousand-odd Harvard students who passed through the Yard yesterday morning were in the approximate vicinity of a $15,000 diamond studded "slave" bracelet, which was lost there Wednesday afternoon by Miss Cathleen B. Rice, of Hartford, Connecticut. All day yesterday a special detachment of the police force searched in the Yard shrubbery for the missing ornament, while two inspectors went the rounds of the city pawn-shops. The bracelet has not yet been found, however...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARD HIDES WHEREABOUTS OF BRACELET FROM POLICE | 6/5/1931 | See Source »

...Eldridge Reeves Johnson, wife of the founder of Victor Talking Machine Co., on board a yacht anchored in the Johnson yacht basin at Bridgeboro, N. J., dropped a $2,000 bracelet overboard in 20 ft. of water, hired a diver to hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 21, 1930 | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

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