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...shop on Newbury Street where Charles was manager, the Boston Globe reported yesterday. In a search of Stuart's Reading home, police reportedly found telephone bills that indicate she had been using his credit card to call him at the hospital. They also are looking into a brooch he recently bought...
...Lain Brooch...
...elegant, fur-clad woman sports a bloody animal paw worn as an earring and a steel trap as a brooch. Her picture is accompanied by this warning: THE LEG HOLD TRAP -- FOR ANIMALS THAT DON'T GET STRANGLED, BEATEN, GASSED OR ELECTROCUTED. That poster is part of a campaign by Britain's animal lovers to publicize the inhumane manner in which many fur coats are produced...
...Warfield (Spencer) (Simpson) on the arm of the faithful Herman Rogers. She wore a dress that most U. S. department stores were soon to feature: soft blue crepe with a tight, buttoned bodice, a halo-shaped hat of the same color. At her throat was a tremendous diamond-&-sapphire brooch. Mrs. Warfield carried a prayer book, wore a large lavender orchid at her waist...
Since then, Nordic designers have given every European style their distinct mark. Denmark's Georg Jensen's silver and opal Dragonfly brooch (1904) and fellow Dane Erik Magnussen's Grasshopper brooch (1907) of silver and coral are unmistakably art nouveau. They are also unmistakably Scandinavian. Like virtually all the objects in this exhibition, they show the patient toil brought to bear on stubborn, natural materials. This is what Frank Lloyd Wright called "organic" design...