Word: diamonditis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squeeze the natives out of "Native Reserves" into the gold and diamond mines became the first order of business for all South Africa's "bosses," from Rhodes to Smuts. First a hut tax was imposed which forced the impecunious natives to earn white man's money. Later came a head tax of 20 shillings a year. Squads of police cruised nightly through urban "locations" (segregated residential quarters), routing all Negroes without poll-tax receipts. The penalty: jail, cuts with a thin bamboo cane-or a job in the mines. By 1938 the rural Europeans, who form...
...over the place." The Duchess was asked to describe the basis on which she selected jewels to match her costumes. She said: "A fool would know that with tweeds or other daytime clothes one wears gold arid with evening clothes one wears platinum." Among the missing was her famous diamond stork-shaped clip; a pair of diamond and sapphire earrings; a 58.2 carat aquamarine ring...
Millions of U.S. citizens seemed to find the whole business highly satisfying. Housewives complained vociferously, but brought home overpriced hamburger as proudly as if they had the Hope Diamond tied up in a pickle carton. There were other millions who got mad, concluded 1) that they were living in an immoral age; 2) that somebody was to blame; and 3) that they were rapidly going broke. But if they got ugly with the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker they ended up eating eggplant. To get the goods you had to smile, smile, smile...
...their motto in a production of Sir J. M. Barrie's "What Every Woman Knows." When the company reached Boston, the New England equivalent of Shubert's Alley was buzzing with hoarse whispers about "something new in the theatre." Unfortunately, it's the same old stuff rendered into a diamond-studded offering that will probably keep the box-office busy and local theatre-goers content...
Hazel Forbes, who rose from Ziegfeld glorification on Broadway to toothpowder riches (Dr. Lyon's, inherited from her late second husband Paul Owen Richmond), lost her purse in a Hollywood nightclub. The purse's contents: a diamond-studded gold cigaret lighter, a diamond-studded gold cigaret holder, a diamond-studded gold compact, a diamond-studded gold lipstick-&-perfume set, a diamond-studded pillbox, a solid gold scratch pad and pencil, a diamond-&-gold coin purse, a diamond-studded gold money clip, $500 in cash, and 40 solid gold keys. But no tooth powder...