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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...
Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Maud Alice, Lady Cunard, birdlike blonde widow of fox-hunting Sir Bache Cunard. The daughter of the late E. F. Burke of New York and known to Mayfair as '"Emerald," Lady Cunard is the mother of exotic Nancy Cunard, whose fondness for Negroes as dancing partners has caused many a raised eyebrow in London and New York...
...known as Le Guerbois, on the Avenue de Clichy. In the oceans of talk at that café, the group gradually evolved theories of painting. They wanted to paint light, and they wanted to throw aside the moldy palette of the Academicians for pure tones, yellows, vermilions, emerald-greens. The friends of the café Guerbois had no name for them selves until April 15, 1874 when the Photographer Nadar lent them his gallery for a large exhibition. Among the pictures was one by Claude Monet entitled Impression, Sunrise. One Louis Leroy, critic of Charivari, blasted the show and picked...
Elvira and, Tiberio, his prize-winning canvas (see cut) shows an embarrassed but happy pair of young South American Negroes, all dressed up in their Sunday best and perched primly on the edge of an emerald green sofa. Elvira has a gay wreath of pink poppies around her Dolly Vardon hat. Tiberio's immaculate white linen suit is set off by a magnificent striped shirt...
...Long was elected Governor in 1928 a New Orleans publisher collected a fund to buy him a set of table silver. Mr. Maestri's check, however, was righteously returned because nice people looked askance at the source of his family's fortune. Thereupon Mr. Maestri purchased a $2,500 emerald & diamond scarf pin for the Governor which the Governor wore and laughed about all over the State...