Word: carat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although still pressing as many Germans as possible to wed, the Government last week decided to save as much nuptial gold as possible, decreed that in Germany no wedding ring can be sold of a quality purer than 8 carat gold. Since pure gold is 24 carat, an 8-carat ring would be exactly two thirds base metal...
...Majesties hold in London. Wearing no court gear, proud Scotsmen arrived in stiff tartan kilts, squiring their soft-skirted women. Beside George V. who wore the Scots Greys' scarlet and gold, Queen Mary convexed majestically in a gown of silver and pastel pink lace upon which blazed the 106-carat Koh-i-nor. Scots gossips twittered that before King Edward set the present style for London courts. Queen Victoria used to hold drawing rooms "when her Mistress of the Robes was the present Duke of Buccleuch's mother...
...tent-camp strolled the Secretary of War, stood at attention while a squad fired A Century of Progress's first tardy salute. Followed by three private bodyguards, Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean went to a night club in A Century of Progress. Around her neck hung the 44½ carat Hope diamond. Said Mrs. McLean: "Of course it's the real Hope diamond." Next night a mile away Mrs- Adolph Zukor awoke from a sound sleep on the 13th floor of the Blackstone Hotel to discover that she had been robbed of a $60,000 pearl necklace...
Sister Jansci ("Jenny") Dolly was fined $750.000 and given a suspended three-day jail sentence in Paris for evading a luxury tax of $33,000 on a 51-carat diamond costing $185,000. Said she: "I cannot pay even...
...time to think it over. Miss Gillespie's parents took the engagement ring away from her and the last I heard of it, it was in a vault down town. I don't know the exact value of the ring. You know, it is a 32-carat diamond, a part of the crown jewels of France. My father's mother bought it. . . . She willed it to my father, Col. John Jacob Astor. He willed it to me. I hope they return it. It's one of our oldest heirlooms." Of a report that...