Word: circlets
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...Bardot to go to London to discuss a movie. "I can't wait," said Frankie. "I gotta be in Boston. Senator Kennedy is a friend of mine, and I promised." Finally, Frankie made a return volant to the U.S., still determinedly withholding his paw sinister from the gold circlet that anyone might wish to slip on his finger...
...with a great human host in wishing you new health, long happiness," read the birthday message from the Cabinet. The President got a great belt of laughter out of a gift from the White House reporters: a pair of dark-red pajamas with a five-star general's circlet of stars on the collar tabs and a gold-lettered device across the pocket. MUCH BETTER THANKS, to help the President reply to inquiries about his health. "Laborsaving pajamas," read the card...
...Francisco Elaine Barrie Barrymore, currently suing for divorce, made her stage debut in The Return of Hannibal. At the same time her mother, Mrs. Louis Jacobs, revealed that the wedding ring Actor John Barrymore had given Elaine was a circlet woven from tiny strands of gold: "Flexible-like Elaine's marriage...
...fantastic purchase price of £15,000 (52,000 gold dollars at last week's rate of exchange), the dealer accounted for by saying that "the coronet was set with valuable gems." A proper ducal coronet consists of a circlet of gold from which rise eight strawberry leaves also of gold. Peers below the rank of duke have to wear more ornate coronets. These may not be made of gold, must be made of silver gilded to look like gold. They must also be embellished with silver balls which the English call "pearls," but never with real pearls or gems...
...gentlemen supported the trailing bridal veil of antique Brussels lace, priceless and some 20 feet long. Instead of a wreath, Princess Isabelle wore a bridal circlet of diamonds. Carrying a missal instead of a bouquet, and leaning on the arm of her father Prince Pierre, she led the royal procession in which walked 54 princes and princesses...