Word: bracelets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Karen Morley (Mrs. Talbot), supported by such $1,000-a-week celebrities as Phillips Holmes, Jean Hersholt, Madge Evans, Grant Mitchell and the late Louise Closser Hale, perform brilliantly and avoid each others' toes. Good shot: Kitty Packard making up her mind to give her maid a bracelet. Paddy, the Next Best Thing (Fox) is very clearly Fox's notion of the next best thing to Metro's Peg 0' My Heart. It is an idyll of the Irish countryside, dripping with Hollywood blarney, Janet Gaynor's girlish charm and terms of endearment like "acushla...
...Douglass filmed breathlessly, finished his reel. But the octopus did not know it was only play. It continued to embrace the heroine, keeping her on the bottom until several male bystanders dived in, pulled it off. To soothe her bruises, Florence's grateful father gave her a diamond bracelet...
...Port Washington, L. I., that on the morning of Sept. 10, 1924, after the master and his guests had returned from an entertainment for the Prince of Wales, a thief slipped into the Cosden's bedroom and took from Mrs. Cosden's dressing table her diamond bracelet, black pearl ring, pink pearl ring, and pigeon blood rubies (aggregate value: $100,000), slipped into a nearby room and took $42,000 worth of jewels lying on a tray near Lady Mountbatten...
Wealthy Mrs. Paul M. Browne of Darien, Conn., an expectant mother during the summer, had had no occasion to wear her diamond bracelet and earrings until one evening last fortnight. They were gone. Her insurance company called in Private Detective Noel Scaffa, diamond finder extraordinary...
...that they are unfit for the strife that is a rule of the world. Their first instinct, that of hunger, is denied when they are punished for eating a cookie between meals; then their acquisition instinct is curbed when they are unable to understand that a diamond bracelet is more valuable than a rocking horse. When the sex instinct makes its appearance, it is unhealthily denied by the parent's explaining as my parents explained to me, that no decent person ever had such a thing as sex. Finally when the self-preservation instinct develops, it is fought under when...