Word: jeweller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half the population will have to be moved when WPA projects cease. There is vague talk that the State of Florida might take over the old right-of- way, use it to build a continuous automobile road down the Keys. Unless it does so, Key West, the last jewel inserted in the Flagler crown of empire, is liable to become a ghost city, reverting to sand...
Victorian Jewel Box. Meanwhile his 500,000,000 subjects can ruffle the pages of English history and survey their previous King Edwards. Too late came Edward VII to be included in that magnificent and useful doggerel The History of England in Rhyme which so many sturdy Victorians still know by heart. In some 400 lines of galloping and definitely learnable verse it equips an Englishman with the history of his country from "great Julius Caesar, B. C. fifty-five." Gems from this Victorian jewel box apropos the long dead Edwards...
...Obviously the Bancroft Collection is a jewel of exceptional quality. The Library and the School may well consider themselves fortunate in receiving such a splendid addition to their assembly of material relating to business history...
...When I refused to sign, he drew a pistol, pressed it to his temple, and threatened to pull the trigger. I signed to prevent him from committing suicide and because I could not bear the scandal of having a man found shot dead in my office!" Why did the jewel expert M. Emile Farault appraise as genuine jewels some synthetic emeralds said by Stavisky to belong to a company headed by the Emperor of Ethiopia and thus enable them to be pawned at a fabulous profit by Stavisky? "I had no doubt of their value!" swore Defendant Farault last week...
...Greentree and Sands Point polo teams with Tommy Hitchcock. John Milton Hancock, long-distance runner at the University of North Dakota, Wartime Naval Commander and supply-purchaser, hunts mountain sheep in British Columbia. He specializes in the affairs of Lehman Bros, clients such as Sears. Loose-Wiles, Jewel Tea, other national merchandise distributors. Mr. Hancock rehabilitated Jewel when the chainstore seemed headed for the rocks. Paul Mazur looks after department store clients-Gimbels, Hahn's, Associated Dry Goods. He wrote The Crisis and Some Ways Out (1931), other economic books and articles. William J. Hammerslough is head...