Word: garnet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other imperial gems went for as little as $290, paid for a garnet necklace with bracelets to match, on which bidding started at $25. Total sales reached $402,800. A single 48-carat oval diamond brought $57,000. The major "Crown Jewels" of the Tsars (TIME, Dec. 27) still remain, of course, in Russia, guarded day and night by soldiers in tight uniforms buttoning up the back and without cuffs or pockets...
...parquetry of a Manhattan ballroom, which had been chartered for the 21st Annual Automobile Salon, stood some 100 of the cars of the more expensive manufacturers equipped with various body-designs which will define the trend of the new year's elegance: Bodies that reproduced in lustre-lacquers the garnet, topaz, turquoise, sapphire, chalcedony, beryl, aquamarine, lapis lazuli, agate, carnelian, porphyry, opal, and the tinctures of those most exquisite of jewels stupidly known as semiprecious; bodies that borrow the dyes of those birds that streak green jungle tunnels with a brilliance as of exploding flame?the golden-headed trogon...
Last week despatches called attention to one of the ramifications of Henry Ford's business not hitherto generally known. Mr. Ford owns one of the richest garnet mines in the world. It is located on the side of Bear Hill in Danbury...
...Thomas Garnet, S.J.; Tyburn...
Sandoval had the bad judgment to imply that Messrs. Almy and Gaar had helped themselves to the shipment, and were now "dancing on the ruins." Two things were certain these six years after the war: the inducements had never reached the harpies, and Mrs. Gaar's garnet bracelets and the beginnings of the "elegant and commodious" mansion on the Hudson had come to light shortly after the money had disappeared there from...