Word: carats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Minas Geraes, Brazil, prospectors on the banks of the Saobento River reported finding seven huge diamonds, one of which weighed over 2,000 carats-second largest diamond ever found.- About the size of a man's fist, a 2,000-carat blue-white diamond is worth...
...certain number of freak gowns, shown only for their publicity value. Thus the Swiss designer Heim, opening his new shop on the Champs Elysees, showed sports dresses of natural burlap with clothesline girdles; Jane Regny had a combination evening gown and bathing suit; Gabrielle Chanel had gloves of 18-carat spun gold; Maggy Rouff showed evening gowns with a zipper down the front from neck to hem "for moonlight bathing." Ruffling through their notebooks, buyers reported the following definite trends for 1933 summer fashions: ¶ Waists will be lower, lines will be definitely straighter and looser. Sleeves are moderately full...
...estate, one auction of furniture and household effects was held at Elmhurst last spring. There was still enough left to keep auctioneers busy for six days last week. All Miss Giulia's jewelry was sold with the rest. Besides her famed four-strand pearl necklace and her 25-carat Ceylon sapphire there was a box full of diamond brooches in the shapes of cow, crescent, rooster, grasshopper, wild duck, beetle, bee, donkey, horse & cab, the U. S. flag, lizard...
Sued. Edward Beale McLean, fun-loving publisher of the Washington Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer, by Mrs. Evelyn Lucille Walsh McLean, his socialite wife, owner of the 44½-carat Hope diamond ($2,000,000): for separate maintenance ($10,000 a month) for herself & children (two sons, one daughter). Charge: nonsupport...
...Gosta Morner. He lasted six weeks. The Earl of Northesk (of Vanities Jessica Brown fame) and Count de Janze were later also-rans. Someone, said to be prominent in the automobile business, lately gave her the very biggest diamond she could find at Black, Starr & Frost's?a 127-carat stone called the largest perfect diamond in the world...