Word: diamonditis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...francs in two days of baccarat at Le Touquet and skinned a notorious character named Amletto Battisti of 5,000,000 francs at Nice. One morning, strolling down the Esplanade at Cannes on the arm of a gallant London department store tycoon, she spotted a 52-carat, $250,000 diamond ring in a jeweler's window and wheedled him into buying it on the spot. All this & more she eventually spent or hocked...
...officer, Captain Edwin T. Layton, testified: "Admiral Kimmel looked at me, as sometimes he would, with somewhat of a stern countenance and yet partially with a twinkle in his eye and said, 'Do you mean to say that they could be rounding Diamond Head and you wouldn't know?' or words to that effect...
...Young punch which brought Dr. Young one of his greatest friends and benefactors. In 1912 "Diamond Jim" Brady went to him in desperate condition from urinary stoppage. Relieved, Diamond Jim lived five more years, during which he gave $200,000 to found Johns Hopkins' Brady Urological Institute, plus $15,000 a year toward its maintenance. He left it $300,000 more when he died...
Without letting her know what was wrong with him, he did his best to break off with his sweetheart, Ruth Hartley (Eleanor Parker). But thanks to her love and patience, the pep talks of his fellow marine Lee Diamond (Dane Clark) and the kindliness of a Red Cross worker (Rosemary De Camp), he was finally won back into human circulation...
...also exciting-because the screen is so unaccustomed to plain talk-to see and hear the angry discussion of postwar prospects which Scripter Albert Maltz has written for the hospitalized marines. Effectively outspoken, too, is Lee Diamond's reminder, to Al, that blindness gives him no monopoly on job handicaps-that Diamond himself has been plentifully handicapped all his life because...