Word: carats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George VI of England gave "the steel-hearted citizens of Stalingrad" a four-foot, two-handed sword with a double-edged blade, a chased silver crosspiece, a grip wrapped in 18-carat gold wire, a pommel of rock crystal...
...dozen knives, forks and spoons, 200,000 dishes, 150,000 glasses and goblets, 1,000 18-carat gold-plated banquet plates (all just a headache to soldiers on K.P. duty who had been put to polishing them for the sale...
...flame-haired young Claudia Cassidy grubbed away writing a music-and-theater column for the Chicago Journal of Commerce. Her pay was low but her spirit high: steadily and surely Miss Cassidy became known to an ever wider public as the best music critic in Chicago. Her two 18-carat assets: 1) a shrewd sense of musical values, 2) a gift of writing pointed criticism engagingly. Examples: (after Galli-Curci's ill-fated attempt at a comeback) "Instead of cream velvet jeweled with coloratura splendor there is an unsteady little lyric soprano quavering like a sad ghost pleading...
Then, in 1914, when Bill Bingham was a Junior and the Gold Coast was really fourteen carat, Snowball came to Cambridge and tried his hand at laundry, pressing, and punch-concocting. In those days, the great Club controllers like Chase Mellon, young Barney Baruch, et al, inhabited 6 Holyoke Place (now a parking lot), Claverly, Randolph, and Westmorley. "Then, they went more for the straight stuff with a little ginger alc or soda," reflects the alcoholic expert. "They had pride in holding their own whiskeys. Now that the punch has come in, they start right off with the idea...
...sluefoot. Behind him undulates Rosalind Russell, clad in a white hat the size of a Syrian water wheel. She, too, is a gem thief, but posing as a baroness. One look at her and Actor Gable begins leering, ogling, wriggling his mustaches. It is Empire Day and the two carat-coppers are, unknown to each other, after a very heavy stone named the Star of Asia, which customarily swings from the wrinkled neck of the Duchess of Beltravers (Jessie Ralph...