Word: brooches
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Madeleine is a British spy trying to smuggle a brooch-full of vital statistics from New York City to Los Angeles. Hope is the lesser half of a three-a-day penguin roller-skating act. They meet when Madeleine chooses his dressing room for a hideout from pursuing Nazis. They get out for Hollywood together by Pullman after she has bussed him once and Percy, the penguin, has been signed for pictures...
From a Manhattan gutter 230 sparkling diamonds and rubies caught the eye of an honest laborer, who turned the brooch over to police. It had been dropped by longtime Metropolitan Opera Soprano Frances Alda...
Illustrative of the great tradition of Irish medieval religious art, there are replicas of the famous brass shrine of the Bell of St. Patrick, of the beautiful processional Cross of Cong. of the Ardagh Brooch, the Book Shrine of St. Molaise, the Crozier of Lismore, and the Misach Book Shrine...
...Miss Hill in efforts to cheer them up. Then last week he put on his khaki and gold uniform as Colonel Commandant of the Johore Military Forces and marched into Caxton Hall Registry Office to marry Miss Mendl. She turned up in silver fox and orchids, wearing a diamond brooch in which the Crown of Johore was flanked by the Sultan's crest, two tiger claws. Wailed the parents of never-married Miss Hill, "It has come as a great shock...
From the $600,000 collection brought by courier, Zog chose a diamond tiara, a bracelet, brooch and two rings. The courier and his jewel box then boarded a Rome-bound Ala Littoria (Italian) airliner for his journey to Paris. After crossing the Apennines, the liner plunged into fog, suddenly smashed into the slope of Mt. Altino near Formia. The jewel box hurtled clear, burst open and spread the gems over the ground. Startled shepherds clambered to the plane, found it a blazing wreck, with the 19 passengers and crew dead. They pocketed as many of the bright stones as they...