Word: emeralds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foudy boasted that 500,000 people would watch the team this year. St. Mary's rooters boasted two special trains for their annual two-week $54,000 transcontinental junket. St. Mary's players boasted scarlet shirts with white shoulders, decorated with green harps, blood-red headguards, emerald-green silk trousers, royal-blue stockings. Fordham had nothing to boast about except one point-result of Andy Palau's place kick after a touchdown on his pass to Jacunski-that outweighed two St. Mary's field goals...
Sworn Enemy (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A first-rate screen play by Wells Root and a first-rate performance by Joseph Calleia make this otherwise ordinary Gangster v. Government film agreeably nerve-racking. Calleia is Joe Emerald, neurotic head of a protection racket who, because his own legs are so weak he cannot walk without two canes, has set his heart on becoming proprietor of a heavyweight champion prizefighter. The Root screen play shows how a G-man (Robert Young), who has inherited a promising young plug-ugly from a brother the racketeer has killed, uses this obsession to bait...
With the King and Mrs. Simpson were Lord and Lady Brownlow and the most Bohemian of Britain's fashionable hostesses, Lady Cunard, the rich onetime Maude Alice Burke who married into the Cunard family and now calls herself "Emerald" Cunard. Her daughter Nancy is renowned for the handsome young Negro bucks she has introduced into select British circles...
...jewelry around (Big Brown Eyes, Desire, Florida Special). It is mounted with atmospheric travel shots, big blue & white sundecks, the usual competent Michael performance. Sample line, by Sir Guy Standing: "I have reached the age of wisdom, when a pretty woman is no more than the setting for the emerald at her throat." Denouement: the jewels planted on Bernard by Dawson...
From Roman Catholic Archbishop Maximiliano Crespo of Popayan, Colombia, a Chicago gem syndicate bought for an unrevealed sum the foot-high emerald crown of Our Lady of the Andes, containing 453 jewels seized by Pizarro in the 16th Century from the collection of Atahuallpa, last of the Incas. Exhibited in Manhattan, the crown was appraised at $4,500,000 by its new owners, who have been dickering for it since 1914 when Pope Pius X gave permission for the sale. Colombia will use the proceeds to build a Catholic hospital and orphan asylum at Popayan...