Word: jeweler
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...play whose slightness should be equaled by its lightness, whose charm lies in the contrast between its manners and its morals. Such gentility may make the play seem more immoral, but without it Gigi is merely raffish, and less entertaining than it should be. Only such a tittle jewel of a scene as the scene of the jewels comes off completely. Otherwise, Gigi shimmers most while its scenes are being shifted, when against evocatively Parisian curtains it plays gay, rakish period tunes...
...forth three guiding convictions: 1) Western man was the architect of the modern world, 2) he was a most interesting, instructive and colorful individual, 3) he was a Christian whose faith served as a mighty engine of civilization. Then the history opens with a burst of color: the gold, jewel-encrusted cover of a medieval Gospel...
Back in civilian life, the Pinkertons prospered. Every kind of criminal, from Western train robber to international jewel thief, fell before them. In 1886, they solved a New Orleans murder case in which the main clue was an obscure African poison injected from a hollow needle into the leg of a pretty girl. In the '20s, they caught a bigamist who gave as his reason for burning his second wife the indisputable fact that "it is hard for a man to support two wives...
...Chicago suburbs, the Jewel Food Stores were speeding customers past the check-out counters with teams of five girls: the first girl calls out the price of each item into a microphone as she places it on a conveyor belt; the second picks up the information on earphones and tots up the total order; the third makes change; the other two pick up the goods at the end of the conveyor belt and pack them...
...Anthony Charles Maximilian Henry Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Louis Cajetanus Pius Ignatius, Emperor (by theoretical title) of Austria, King of Hungary, Bohemia and Jerusalem, Margrave of Moravia, Grand Voivode of Serbia, Duke of Lorraine and Auschwitz, Lord of Trieste, etc., etc. On the pretender's shoulders lay the jewel-studded collar of the Golden Fleece, symbol of Habsburg knighthood. Inside the cushion before him was scattered a handful of Austrian earth -all he had left of the land from which his house had been banished...