Word: diamonditis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Billy Rose, famous international showman, this Friday offered the services of six of the most beautiful girls from his Diamond Hersoshoe nightclub in New York to be used in putting into practice the new plan of admission to Harvard recently set forth by Pitirim A. Sorokin, Professor of Sociology...
Playing in a steady deluge on a brilliantly lighted diamond, the Harvard CRIMSON's powerful touch football squad led by Pete "Pass me another Daiquirl" Dammann sloshed to victory 23 to 2 last night completely outclassing a completely outclassed Yale Daily News (rhymes with booze) eleven...
...Miss Hill in efforts to cheer them up. Then last week he put on his khaki and gold uniform as Colonel Commandant of the Johore Military Forces and marched into Caxton Hall Registry Office to marry Miss Mendl. She turned up in silver fox and orchids, wearing a diamond brooch in which the Crown of Johore was flanked by the Sultan's crest, two tiger claws. Wailed the parents of never-married Miss Hill, "It has come as a great shock...
Died. Daniel ("Diamond Dan") O'Rourke, 79, keeper of what was 30 years ago "the biggest and best saloon on the Bowery," manager of Heavyweight Champion James J. Jeffries; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...Present seneschal of Tiffany tradition is six-foot, grey-haired John Chandler Moore, whose grandfather was vice president under the first Tiffany. To friends, John Chandler is a kindly, dignified gentleman who wears high, stiff collars, tightly knotted ties. His weakness: he loves horses. To employes he is aloof, diamond-hard, almost a myth in an upstairs office. In best Tiffany style John Chandler does not tell Who's Who his age. Exact number of his employes is also secret (in the '20s it was well over 1,000). For many years, the old Tiffany...