Word: bracelets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just an attempt to get more free publicity. On the terrace of the Palm Beach Casino-where 40 guests enjoyed mounds of orchids ($15 each), 60 lbs. of ice-encased caviar and a $1,000 display of fireworks-Horace presented his platinum-blonde friend with a $4,290 gold bracelet (her collection of gewgaws from Dodge already includes a $3,000 gold cigarette lighter and a $74,290 diamond ring). Said Dodge, who is still waiting for a final divorce decree from wife No. 4: "I do hope to marry [Gregg] some day." Purred Gregg: "Friendship...
U.M.T., steadfastly advocated by military men since George Washington's day, had finally been bulled through a somewhat reluctant Congress, was at last the law of the land. Marshall, Bradley, Eisenhower, Collins had urged it. And Anna Rosenberg, George Marshall's able, bracelet-jangling Assistant Secretary, had worked out many of the details...
...however; they offer a warm and charmingly candid portrait of her family-and of her father's frequent distress at the family's frivolity and worldly ways. "Yesterday evening [Papa Tolstoy] asked Lev what he had in his hand. Lev was obliged to say it was a bracelet, which the ... boys were offering to Zankovetzki, the actress. Papa turned sadly away, then asked me what I was reading-a fashion journal! And what was Vera Tolstoy doing this evening? She had gone to the theater . . . Papa stood motionless for some time, all of us sitting there, hanging...
...direct contrast to these two stories, Illona Karmel's "The Bracelet" is almost self-consciously denotative. It is the story of a bracelet that symbolizes the fortunes of a Russian-Jewish family. Each possessor of the bracelet is deftly and clearly depicted in a series of brief character sketches, "The Bracelet" is consistently interesting, but the story's structure precludes much emotional reaction. The most arresting character, a young woman named Barbara Bogucka, is passed over just as the reader becomes interested...
...marriage by proxy. Summoning a dozen friends, they broke the news and began pouring champagne. "I know it's a strange sort of marriage," said Ingrid, "but ... I'm glad that I'm married." She wore a wedding gift from her new husband: a gold chain bracelet dangling a gold miniature policeman's whistle. To Mrs. Renzo Rossellini, the bridegroom's sister-in-law, Ingrid looked "transfigured with...