Word: gem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cracking soil, a dusty skyline, a steer's skull lying in the foreground. The picture was taken by the RA's able Cameraman Arthur Rothstein and had been widely used by the U. S. Press as a sample of the drought in the Dakotas. Of this "gem among phony pictures," the Fargo Forum declared: "There never was a year that this scene couldn't be produced in North Dakota, even in years when rain- fall levels were far above normal. What we see here is a typical alkali flat, left when melting snow water and spring rains...
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...
From Burma came a gem-like set, the board being made of minute marquetry squares alternating with carvings in natural wood. The men are of ivory, introducing such unusual figures as tigers, camels, and water buffalo...
...Loew's State this week is a well rounded program featuring a satirical romance of Clarence Buddington Kelland called "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," with an S.S. Van Dine thriller filling out the bill. In the first, a gem of pure wit in Kelland's best Satevepost style, Mr. Deeds is a country boy from Vermont whose uncle's death leaves him a fortune of twenty millions, complete with town house and a regiment of vassals from a major-domo to a pair of plug-ugly bodyguards. With a bank account that "will do in a pinch," he locks...
...deny that he ever said any such thing but legend is a sturdy oak. Legend also says that in this room Sir Edward Grey worked all one night in 1914 and then at dawn, stepping to the window as London's street lights were being extinguished, cut this gem: "Lights are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lighted again in our time...