Word: diamonditis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yacht, left her husband. He sent her 60 consecutive telegrams begging forgiveness, and she came back. One day at Carder's, McLean spent $154,000 on a present which was to be inseparably linked with her name for the rest of her life-the baleful, blue Hope Diamond, which had supposedly brought death or disaster to all who had owned...
Died. Evalyn Walsh McLean, 60, Washington's most famed and lavish hostess, owner of the reputedly unlucky 44¼-carat Hope Diamond (estimated value: anything up to $2 million) ; of pneumonia; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...came-Vassar and Yale sent three apiece, and Wellesley supplied a small brunette and a big blonde-that the conference had to be moved from the New Republic's library to the subscription counter one flight up. Haggard-looking Wallace, in red diamond-patterned necktie and blue suite, leaned up against the counter, perspiring freely, and answered questions for the better part of an hour...
...more tightly played contest on the baseball diamond, Eliot toppled Dunster, 7 to 2. Unlike the neighboring softball tilts, the sparkling work of the fielders highlighted the game. The Mastadons used two pitchers in holding the Deacons to four hits. Johnny Young starred as the Eliot twirler...
Boston College's talented baseball team opens its season against the Varsity this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Eagles' Newton roost. Picked by Hub sportswriters as the strongest team in the Boston area, the Eagles reputedly have former all-scholastic diamond stars liberally sprinkled at all positions, and a couple of veteran hurlers back from former seasons...