Word: diamonditis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shakespeare write musical shows? The answer seemed to rest last week with James Caesar Petrillo, who never got beyond the fifth grade. To the producers, Broadway's current The Tempest (TIME, Feb. 5) is a play by William Shakespeare with incidental music by David Diamond. To Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians, it is "a musical show because of the amount of music in it, and we don't care whether it is by Shakespeare or by Joe Doakes...
...Santo Tomas, ravenous prisoners had scrambled for garbage, for roots, for cats to eat (they found they taste like rabbit). In the camp's black market they had bartered diamond rings and watches for condensed milk and rice, had paid thousands of dollars for food the Jap guards stole from the camp storehouse. Additional supplies were smuggled past Jap guards by solemn-faced stretcher-bearers...
...Bidding is based on the number of points that a player can meld. Melds in Check include: four cards of a kind in different suits (four aces, 100); a flush (ace to ten in one suit), 150; a "marriage" (KQ of a suit), 20; a "pinochle" (Spade Q and Diamond J), 40. Bidding starts at 200 points, is raised in units of ten or more. A hand must be bid unless the player has no "marriage." A game ends when one team scores 1,000 points- but the team to win is the one with the most "checks." Checks...
...calm," kept busy as a doctor's assistant, trying to hold on, but the pressures drained her ("I am just a shell . . . old and colorless . . ."). Blond, hysterical Vinny Whitney's slight strength soon crumbled. She flaunted herself lustfully at the men, finally took up with Lance Diamond, a husky degenerate who had wangled a private room with a cot and kept himself in pocket money by renting it to furtive couples. Mrs. Jenks, once an ordinary matron, in time grew nearly as obnoxious as Lance. A persistent troublemaker, she called the young women "bitch" and "whore" to their...
...World War II the corporation voluntarily froze diamond prices at prewar levels, although industrial users grumbled that upgrading of poor stones had actually upped prices. The Trading Company paid as little attention to this as to any complaints from buyers who do not like its rules. Customers pay in advance, take title to the stones in London. Industrial users often buy stones unseen, have them mailed to them from London...