Word: carat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest moment was yet to come. To insure the success of the banquet -held to raise money for the Al Smith Memorial Hospital Fund-every ticket holder had been promised a chance to win a genuine 109-carat diamond...
...drove to Reno-where pretty, brunette Mrs. Malcolmson was divorcing her husband on Pappy's behalf. She didn't seem to understand. Pappy found himself giving her a three-carat diamond engagement ring. That wasn't all-after Pappy beat a strategic retreat to Los Angeles, Mrs. Malcolmson called in reporters and announced that she was to become Mrs. Pappy Boyington within a week...
...francs in two days of baccarat at Le Touquet and skinned a notorious character named Amletto Battisti of 5,000,000 francs at Nice. One morning, strolling down the Esplanade at Cannes on the arm of a gallant London department store tycoon, she spotted a 52-carat, $250,000 diamond ring in a jeweler's window and wheedled him into buying it on the spot. All this & more she eventually spent or hocked...
Moss Hart, gold-plated author of Winged Victory (TIME, Nov. 29), was suddenly short of gold. Stolen from his apartment was his entire collection of high-carat garters, cuff links, suspenders, cigaret cases, pens & pencils...
...Acquired a wardrobe of 40 suits, 20 shirts, 25 ties, half a dozen pairs of shoes, two mink-lined topcoats, three gold cigaret cases valued at $700 apiece, a star sapphire ring ($1,200), high yellow button shoes for race meetings, an 18-carat, 110-penny-weight watch chain 17 inches long; and from his writings, endorsements...