Word: diamonditis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drove to Reno-where pretty, brunette Mrs. Malcolmson was divorcing her husband on Pappy's behalf. She didn't seem to understand. Pappy found himself giving her a three-carat diamond engagement ring. That wasn't all-after Pappy beat a strategic retreat to Los Angeles, Mrs. Malcolmson called in reporters and announced that she was to become Mrs. Pappy Boyington within a week...
Mississippi's Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, still champion of white supremacy at 68, had an important communiqué for the waiting world. He smoothed his bright red necktie, adjusted the diamond horseshoe stickpin that he bought for $92.50 at a 1916 auction. Then he announced...
...took it mighty hard when Lou Gehrig's diamond career was ended by rare, fatal amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. So did Australia, shortly afterward, when tissue-swelling fibrositis crippled its sports hero, Cricketer Don Bradman. Bradman sadly put away his bats, fought to shake off his affliction, slowly succeeded. Last week, at 37, he again stepped to the wicket, captaining South Australia v. Queensland, batted placements between fieldsmen with oldtime perfection...
...seat. Next evening, air-shaken and weary, they stood through a publicity cocktail party before going to their bridal suite, where they were now & again called to the door by bellhops delivering champagne and other charivarious gifts. By week's end, the Curtsingers' haul included a five-diamond wedding ring, a bridal bouquet with orchids, a Hollywood-New York round-trip flight, a week in a hotel, a set of sterling silver, a vacuum cleaner and a whirl of nightclubs and shows. In future, equally hardy couples may get trips to Paris, new cars, prefabricated houses...
...minutes after Masquerade begins, idealistic cabaret Sarongstress Dorothy Lamour finds herself in Mexico City, knee-deep in a diamond theft, and falling in love with Patric Knowles. As a sort of cushion-shot to win his venomous wife (Ann Dvorak) back from her bullfighting Mexican lover (Arturo de Cordova), Knowles helps Dorothy masquerade as a Countess and gives her plenty of opportunity for song and romance with the bullfighter on the flower-strewn waters of Lake Xochimilco...