Word: frost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite bad weather, yield-per-acre was 3% above average this year, although some 10,000,000 acres of winter wheat were frost-killed and a cold, wet June hampered reseeding...
...gone like water like a web of delicate frost...
Fifty-nine such Pink Pearls were recently threaded by Black, Starr & Frost (Manhattan) into one exquisite necklace, delicately blended, delicately matched. Amateur and professional connoisseurs last week acclaimed it the most magnificent in existence; exhausted superlatives; declared $685,000 a reasonable price...
...Famous Fifty-nine dribbled through unknown channels into the coffers of Black, Starr & Frost. Some they have had for 20 years. Others were collected by their agents in Continental and Eastern markets. Where they may have nestled, whence they may have come, no man can tell save only this: none is "old;" i.e., has ever been worn. As each pearl came in, experts scrutinized; demanded flawless texture, absolute sphericity, iridescent blush. A dozen, a score passed muster. The necklace was conceived. Pearl by perfect pearl, it grew until six months ago the fifty-ninth completed the only famous necklace...
Many magnificent and historic individual gems still survive. Black, Starr & Frost has an emerald presumably from the Russian Crown collection. Tiffany recently acquired a ruby considered the finest it ever owned. Last week, Queen Mary of England attended the opening of Parliament wearing the Cullinan diamond, largest in the world, estimated to be worth...