Word: emeralds
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...only a gigolo but also a thief, is a handsome one-eyed Serb, Djoritch Milan, who admitted to Paris police that he had stolen jewels from the Paris residence of Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt. From Mrs. Vanderbilt's home Milan took an emerald worth $40,000, several other jewels of lesser value, one imitation pearl necklace, thirteen miniatures, three raw eggs. Milan insulted the Paris gendarmes who captured him, boasted that he was leader of a gang of Serbian thieves...
Early Seventeenth Century. Came the Great Frost: the new King celebrated his coronation with an ice carnival on the frozen Thames, and there Orlando fell passionately in love with a Muscovite Princess. His verse likened her to a pineapple, an emerald, a fox in the snow; and for weeks their bliss was the gossip of the icebound court. Then she jilted him, and he went into a trance...
...ghastly corpse sprawls on the floor, a curious dagger still quivering in its side. The wall-safe gapes open−gone the twin heirloom emeralds, gone the royal Russian ruby. A slip of a girl cowers by the curtain, hand to throat, wide eyes glued to the horrid spectacle. Thunderous knocking at the door−the police! Quavering housekeeper opens; gusty storm blows her grey wisp of hair, flash of lightning glitters in her twin green (emerald green) eyes. Blustering sergeant finds cigaret case initialed J. S. "A plant," sneers John Smith, master detective, who has appeared suddenly in their...
...never been a newspaper reporter. He dresses smartly, carries a malacca stick, and speaks in a Milt Gross accent. He lives in one of the largest apartments on Park Avenue, Manhattan. Once, his charming wife expressed a fancy for square jewels; he bought for her an emerald both square and huge. Typical of him is the fact that when he first asked Mr. Hearst for the American Weekly advertising job he pulled out a fist-full of advertising contracts already signed and at a higher rate. He got the job. He is also the man who nourished the straw...
...really a fight for a camera crank, with Miss Pat kicking, biting, and wrapping her legs about the neck of Scoop Morgan. Later, the Maharajah discovers that he has been photographed; he swoons. A doctor offers to aid him, takes him to a tent, murders him, steals his precious emerald. And, all the while, Miss Pat, hidden in an adjoining tent, is recording every detail of the murder with her camera. How this scoop of scoops reached the office and what happened to Miss Pat are done in the best delayed-climax manner...