Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DEVUDA DIAMOND Brooklyn...
...William Pitt Oakes (who died in 1958, 15 years after the still unsolved murder in Nassau of his father, Multimillionaire Miner Sir Harry Oakes). One columnist even overheard Bobbie gush: "She sends me." Last week the Long Island lord ended the society-page speculation, gave Eunice an olive-sized diamond (plucked from a grandmother's earring), announced that on March 21 she would be to the manor borne. Why the rush? Replied Gardiner: "I don't want Eunice to change her mind...
...example, there is the "nation" of little, spade-bearded Albert Kalonji. A vain and cocky tribalist, Kalonji is an ex-railroad clerk who shortly after independence announced himself "king" of a rich diamond-mining area of South Kasai. which he called "Mining State." He is so superstitious that he cannot relax anywhere he goes until the local authorities produce an albino woman to kiss his hand, habitually carries a magic wand that is supposedly capable of killing any man with a wave...
...Queen's Necklace, by Frances Mossiker. One of the 18th century's best puzzles-the theft of a 2,800-carat diamond necklace made for Marie Antoinette...
...Queen's Necklace, by Frances Mossiker. One of the 18th century's best puzzles-the still not fully explained theft of a 2,800-carat diamond necklace made for Marie Antoinette...