Word: brooches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reception in the opera house was as tumultuous and unceasing as the Queen's acceptance of it was gracious. She expressed her gratitude the next morning by inviting the prima donna to her room in the Palatin Hotel and presenting her with a brooch bejeweled bearing the remarkable likeness of "Old Testament-bearded Emperor Haile Selassie, and by asking the whole company to present their operas in Abyssinia, plans for which are now complete...
...missions. Last week Mr. Chapman, now a St. Paul electrical engineer, visited Manhattan to permit a firm-willed patrician from Richmond, Va., Mrs. Robert Randolph Harrison, to pin a silver medal on him for his boyhood initiative. Mrs. Harrison during the ceremony wore a little gold pig on a brooch over her heart; she is the "Honorable First Pig Lady in America," for ingeniously transforming Mr. Chapman's pig-fund idea. Like 80,000 others who learned from her, she sends toy pig banks to her friends. Proudly she recalled last week: "I started with six little pigs...
...times, when actionless dialog makes it stand still, it has no mood at all. A performance by Helen Hayes makes almost any picture worth seeing but The White Sister has surprisingly little else to recommend it. Good shot: Angela's duenna (Louise Closser Hale) giving her a brooch when she enters the convent...
Next day the corpse, in a black crepe dress pinned at the throat with a brooch. was laid out in the Soviet Parliament Building on the third floor. The G. P. U. (secret police) band at one end of the room played a funeral dirge now and then. Five men dressed as workers stood guard around the coffin. Two middle-aged women entered, wept softly for about an hour and went away. Who were they...
...London, a bullock was slaughtered, in its stomach found: seven pounds of nails, several pieces of copper wire, a silver brooch, a shoe buckle, a rubber boot and a derby hat. The bullock was pronounced healthy, its steaks pronounced tender...