Word: cartier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Luscious Lucius noted a minor tragedy for voluptuaries: "Cartier's isn't selling anywhere near the number of men's gold garters the shop usually does. Not because there is a declining demand; on the contrary, they aren't able to fill even the orders on hand because of the difficulty of obtaining good quality -elastic...
...System, was ready for shipment overseas to join OWI's psychological warfare crews in the Mediterranean area. Off & on for a week he had been doing muscle building, studying pamphleteering, intelligence gathering, short-wave receiving at the indoctrination school on the vast Marshall Field estate on Long Island. Cartier, the dazzling Manhattan jewelry firm, had finished...
...could find out about at least one-the underground, British-hating, Fascist-patterned Order of Jacques Cartier, claiming 12,000 members-by reading the liberal weekly newspaper, Le Jour...
Breezily dictaphoned in her swanky, cluttered Waldorf-Astoria apartment, her first columns anecdotalized her famed party guests, repeated such well-known Elsiana as the story of how she rejected a gift of $5,000 worth of jewels from Cartier's, instead hired Fritz Kreisler for that sum to play at a Paris party. (Afterwards, she alleges, Bernard Shaw "rushed up and pointed a finger at my nose. 'Tell me just one thing,' he said, 'is it true? If it is, you are the eighth wonder of the world...
...Century Explorer Jacques Cartier told his monarch in France that the Saguenay River in Quebec flowed through a land of gold and rubies, oranges and almonds, wherein dwelt men with no digestive organs, square bodies, and only one leg. Almost as unbelievable, for a modern nation at war, was the story last week, also from Saguenay, of how most of Canada's aluminum industry had been put out of action for weeks to come. The stoppage occurred at the $150,000,000 Aluminium, Ltd. plant at Arvida which, using cheap water power to process ship-borne bauxite ore from...