Word: bracelets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eugene McGrath, 34, was traipsing between South America and California last week, after confiding to Hollywood Gossipist Sheilah Graham that a going marriage is based on the little things that count. Said Terry: "For our first-month anniversary, Gene gave me diamond earrings. The next month, a gold bracelet and a solid gold carryall. Third month, a race horse. Fourth, a five-carat diamond ring. Next, a diamond bracelet from Tiffany's. The sixth-month anniversary, there was a blue Cadillac Eldorado waiting outside the door." Later "anniversary" loot: fancy apartments in Manhattan and Venezuela, mink, more diamonds. Sighed...
...only an arm stretched out, an outstretched arm that bids me go close, and closer yet to the bracelet that the moss-bearded bridge slips over your wrist...
...World War II was a stern but kindly old gentleman who had no claim to kingship, no ambition to tyranny, and no practice in governing. His realm was a miniature collection of former German areas annexed by Belgium and strung out along its border like charms on a bracelet. Under a six-power agreement signed in Paris in 1949, these territories, 7,789½ acres in all, were placed under a special and independent administration, pending a final peace treaty. The man chosen to head that administration was Major General Paul Bolle, grizzled and nearsighted after 43 years...
...many (and rather better than some) in the standard repertory. Indeed, M-G-M apparently thought it was too good for the general public. Kelly's next effort, a terpsy-turvy take-off on Schnitzler's La Ronde-in which a daisy chain of lovers passes a bracelet (it was syphilis in the original) from one to another until it gets back where it started from-is mostly not much better than the brothel sequence in any other Technicolor musical. The third offering is a parody of Scheherazade, in which Kelly, as a Sinbad in a sailor suit...
...palace and Wednesday's civil wedding (the religious ceremony is two days later). Wedding gifts kept pouring in, karat upon karat. From the principality itself and the Casino came, according to Newshen Inez Robb, "some basic or all-purpose diamonds": a $224,000 set of gem-crusted earrings, bracelet, necklace, ring and clips...