Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tour of Europe and the U. S. in 1936-37, the young Maharaja picked up 100 trunks full of souvenirs, including a ukulele and a 29-karat piece of the $1,000,000 Jonker diamond. He also picked up a cold in California. The nurse who took care of him while he had it was a broad-mouthed, brunette divorcee named Marguerite Lawler Branyen, who had been a nurse-stewardess on the Union Pacific R.R. In Switzerland in 1937 Indore's child bride died. Last week, in India, the Maharaja announced that, except for abdication, he had just followed...
...dignified blond man climbed to the witness stand in the Del Rio, Tex. court house, stroked his goatee with a white, diamond-starred hand and announced:"I am the man who originated the goat gland operation." It was Dr. John Richard Brinkley, famed Kansas "rejuvenator", who for the fourth time was suing Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association's publication Hygeia. Dr. Fishbein, who at the moment had his back turned on Plaintiff Brinkley, appeared unconcerned over Brinkley's demand for $250,000. Last year in Hygeia Dr. Fishbein described Brinkley as a "quack...
Blazing with gorgeous costumes, Act II fanfares a diamond-hatted, golden-suited, golden-shod Bill Robinson into view as Harlemperor of Japan. On a pair of Sullivan heels stutter-toed Mr. Robinson thereupon steps into character to show that at 60 he is still the noblest tap dancer of them all. After that The Hot Mikado is 98° in the shade-and no shade-till the curtain falls...
...tilt today will be only a seven inning affair, but most of this year's diamond aspirants will be given a chance to show their worth, because as yet the make-up of the traveling squad for the spring vacation trip is undetermined...
...Holy diamond ball!" Curtiss exclaimed, modestly adding, "I could eat 50 of them if I wanted to. It was very pleasant...