Word: carat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marched out." Somehow-he won't say how-he got his money to Canada in 1939. How did he get to the U.S.? "I buy a brand-new Cadillac," he tells with a smile, "cross the border and drive to Los Angeles." Says Sacha Wolanow, fingering a three-carat diamond ring: "I am going to buy and buy until I'm the biggest real-estate man in America. I will make Zeckendorf* look like peanuts...
...finally got to play Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. The occasion was the biggest one-night stand of her career: the Sophie Tucker Golden Jubilee Testimonial. Driving up to the front door in a gilded 1903 Ford and rolling-into the Grand Ballroom like a great float (a 24-carat cloth-of-gold gown, a Mr. John hat with diamonds and foot-high white aigrettes, a white mink coat), Sophie sat down to a filet mignon dinner with some 1,700 admirers, who paid their way in with $165,000 for theatrical charities. It was really Sophie's 49th...
...Lausche wants the Democratic nomination for President or Vice President in 1956, he might appoint a high-carat Democratic stalwart to please party powers...
Elizabeth took in her hands next the symbols of Kingliness: the Ring (of sapphire and rubies), to wed the Queen to her subjects; the Royal Sceptre with the Cross, decorated with the Star of Africa (a 516½-carat diamond), for "kingly power"; the Rod of equity and mercy, to "lead your people in the way wherein they should go." The climax of the coronation was near...
Many of their elders showed similar reactions. In Beverly Hills, Mathews, an expensive women's shop, moved into a new store with silk-lined walls, and sent out 1,000 charge plates made of 14-carat gold. In Galveston, one Joe Grasso flew into a swivet over the fact that two Texas pelicans died recently in the London zoo. "They were double-tough Texas pelicans-the toughest birds in the world," he cried, and were the victims of a "Communist plot to discredit Texas in particular and America in general...