Word: brooches
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WHEN MISS BRAZIL APPEARS STAGE TONIGHT [the first wire from Galveston read] WILL WEAR SEVERE BLACK CHIFFON GOWN ON PINK SLIP WITH GARLAND ROSES RUNNING DIAGONALLY ACROSS BREAST STOP NO HEAD DRESS FLESH COLORED HOSE BLACK SHOES ALSO DIAMOND NECKLACE AND DIAMOND AND SAPPHIRE BROOCH CENTER CHEST...
...even afterward, can the companion express a personal opinion. Yet. the companion once breaks that rule. Although only 38, she says to Old Mrs. Greene, "I should like to die in the autumn." Startled, Mrs. Greene ponders the disparity of their ages, impulsively gives her a ruby-and-diamond brooch...
...Coolidge took a diamond and platinum brooch 1½ in. by 3½ in. on a 22-in. diamond and platinum chain, the whole containing nearly 400 diamonds (largest stone, five carats) made by Black, Starr & Frost; also a pink leather book containing the names of the lady admirers who presented the brooch (duplicate filed in the secret archives of the State Department) ; a large silver bowl and candlesticks presented by Lady Howard on behalf of the Diplomatic Corps, as wedding gifts for John Coolidge and Florence Trumbull; a check for $100,000 contributed to the endowment of Clarke School...
...Narrowly speaking, Ambassador MacVeigh made the presentation from the U. S. on behalf of three descendants of Commodore Perry who contributed the relics. The donor of the button and the braid was great-granddaughter Mrs. Henry Bartol, and the hair (set in a diamond brooch) & ring respectively by granddaughters Mrs. Charles E. Lewis and Miss Jane Perry Tiffany. The Commodore had four sons, six daughters. Consequently his descendants are now numerous, widely scattered...
...Perry of Brooklyn, N. Y., had good reason to be vexed at herself after permitting a strange man who said his name was "J. C. Cadr" to swindle her in this manner from Asbury Park, N. J., after she had lost and advertised for a $2,000 platinum brooch...