Word: jeweller
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...Gingerbread Jewel Box. "I cannot tell, I cannot decide," a Western official in Cologne told me, "whether this Germany has two faces-or no face...
...rnberg, which Germans used to call their Schatzküstlein (little jewel box), one looks down at night from the great 11th Century castle on the sparkling lights below which seem to stud a living, healthy city. But in the light of day, the city is a ruin, rendered only more monstrous by the neat little gingerbread houses which poke impertinently above the debris...
...workmen sweated under floodlights to turn the Grand Ballroom into the fanciest automobile showroom on earth. On a wide stage, they set up an endless chain conveyor and a revolving platform for the new models; across the room, they reared a 25-ft. pylon above a cluster of jewel-bright auto engines...
...vain. Towards the end of the meeting, the new President, having warmed up with a lot of purely preliminary inanities, cleared his throat and revealed to the assembled multitude that "government is here to stay, to some extent," which is a perfectly-tooled, neatly-cut, sparkling little jewel of simplicity if there ever was one. It was clear that last winter's business wasn't any accident...
Ernie Johnson tracked this float ore to its source, high on the mountain face, where there was an abandoned gold mine, hopefully named Jewel...