Word: carats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merely play at it. Roy Roberts devotes a great part of his skill, energy and time to it. He almost lost his amateur standing in 1936, when he guided Alf Landon into the worst debacle the Republican Party ever suffered. But in 1948 he made most of the 14-carat professionals look tarnished. He was closest to the biggest political story of the year-the Eisenhower boom...
...Guests' palatial home to appease the clamoring press. Bobo said: "I love him very much." She talked about her early life, said that her father was dead (she was misinformed-he was mining coal in Washington, Pa.) and showed reporters her engagement ring, a 1½-carat, square-cut diamond, set in platinum. Winthrop parried newsmen's thrusts with wit and a bridegroom's smile...
...rock crystal Easter egg rimmed with diamonds and topped with a rare 27-carat Siberian emerald. By twisting the emerald and peeking into the egg, the Czarina could see twelve gold-framed miniatures of her favorite palaces, radiating from a thin gold axis...
Sayde was a middle-aged lady whose husband made his bundle in real estate. She got interested in what she thought was a 21-carat diamond ring. Moe and his brother Gail, who worked for him, wanted $40,000 for the rock. Mrs. Genis demurred. Anyway, the Reingolds only had the ring on consignment. So when Mrs. Genis bought it through another jeweler for a mere $19,000 (it was a mere 18 carats, too, she discovered), Moe was miffed and said so. "Mr. Moe Reingold," the lady later recalled explicitly, "called me a son of a bitch and said...
Sculptor Haseltine's brilliant, blinkered devotion to animal subjects has made him tops in a narrow field. He has done prize pigs, sheep and dogs as well-some of them in 24-carat gold inlaid with precious gems-but horses are his forte, at a fee of $1,800 to $30,000 apiece. "I used to feel a bit put out," says Haseltine with a deprecating shrug, "when people referred to me as 'the horse-sculptor chap...