Word: emeralds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wished to take steps; but George V ordered that "no smoking" be not ordered. The air was faintly blue when the King entered in opera cloak and dress clothes, the Queen in a long, fur-trimmed cloak of gold lame, her silver hair surmounted by a diamond and emerald bandeau. "'Ooraw for 'is Majesty!" roared an oystermonger or perhaps a fishwife, and the cheer was on. Smokers then spontaneously knocked out their pipes, trod on their gaspers (cheap cigarets). "Pipe Lady May," whispered some to others. In the box with Their Majesties sat Lady May Cambridge (mentioned...
...plan, suggested by Henry W. Anderson, granting the power to regulate to Congress is the most valuable, most plausible, and intelligent result of the recent liquor and crime investigation. --Oregon Emerald...
...Emerald, Australia, Joseph Smith, drover, flicked the head off a poisonous adder with a bull whip. The head, entangled in the snapper, swung around, bit Mr. Smith...
...crook stories ever filmed. Temple Tower is silly, complicated. Kenneth McKenna, a slim and boyish sleuth who dresses in dinner clothes and an opera hat even while staying in a town defined by the local innkeeper as "the loneliest place in England," is engaged in tracking down an elderly emerald thief who lives in a tower equipped with bloodhounds, secret passages, a beautiful girl, and a masked hunchback with a penchant for strangling people with his bare hands. Typical shot: the criminal-in-chief dropping a rebellious henchman through a trapdoor into quicksand...
...This custom is being revived to restore interest and make Ivy week the biggest event of a senior's life at Pennsylvanta," says the newspaper. How strange a way to promote campus interest. College seniors as Oliver Twists, Professors with thin skins shun Penn. --Oregon Daily Emerald...