Word: jeweller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even Cleopatra would have found titillating. Three million Egyptians from the hinterland cheered floats of flowers in the streets. Airplanes showered Abdin Palace with rosettes in Egyptian and Iranian colors. Sudan racing camels and Arab stallions crowded the capital's streets. At a reception, each guest received a jewel-encrusted gold box of bonbons (value: $1,000). At night there was a huge banquet at which no liquor flowed (Moslems are dry). The Nile shimmered with reflections of colored fireworks. Later, at another reception for Egyptian royalty and nobles, Fawziya herself shimmered-in bracelets, necklaces and pendants which...
Generally known as "Flemish primitives," these 15th-Century artists were primitive in little but their religious sincerity. Modern painters marvel at the jewel-like permanence of color and patience of workmanship in their best pictures-two reasons why collectors short on verve but long on taste have made a safe hobby of Early Flemish masterpieces. The finest U. S. collection of Flemish primitives was formed by a lawyer, the late John Graver Johnson of Philadelphia...
...Cannes, France, as the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, other international socialites sat chatting with Lord Beaverbrook, the talk turned to cuff links. The Duke displayed a fancy pair, given him by his jewel-loving Duchess. Others showed theirs. Lord Beaverbrook stealthily pulled down his coat sleeves. When the Duchess demanded that he show his links, he sheepishly revealed a pair of safety pins...
...parsons pipe the tunes which businessmen call. Last week in a Chicago suburb (Barrington, Ill.) there was a prodigious politico-religious piping. Occasion: "The Barrington Town Warming Plan ... a combination of the early American town meeting and the old time religious revival." Tune-caller: Barrington's biggest business, Jewel Tea Co., Inc., makers of tea, coffee and groceries, and benevolently paternalistic employer of 300 of the town's 3,500 people...
...Barrington Town Warming was an idea of Jewel Tea's Vice President Clarence W. Kaylor who, like many of his fellow executives, was worried about "isms" threatening the U. S. Mr. Kaylor lined up all of Barrington's civic bodies behind the plan, including the principal churches (Methodist, Catholic, Christian Science). Although a collection was to be taken to finance the Town Warming, no one expected it to amount to much: Jewel Tea Co. would make up the deficit. The plan itself was simply to get as many Barringtonites as possible to go to a series of lectures...