Word: jeweller
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...never-dying tie to Britain. Aspirations both regional and national stir New Zealand and Australia. South Africa's great Prime Minister, Field Marshal and Elder Statesman Jan Christiaan Smuts, feels grave responsibility both for Imperial Britain and for the independent integrity of his own country. India, the jewel of Empire, strains away from Empire, yet gives (or sells) men and wealth for Britain's fight...
...West Coast discovered this mid winter sport only 15 years ago. Their steelheaders' tackle was homemade -from coffee cans and bicycle baskets. Now they use 15-ox. rods & reels with jewel bearings. Equipment includes cans of "goof" (salmon eggs) for bait, a spool of red thread (to tie walnut-sized gobs of goof on the hook), a whiskey bottle and a "gob rag" - a fetid turkish towel for wiping hands after fixing the bait...
Family Circles. In a Boston court, George C. Halkett testified that he had found his wife with another man but did nothing about it because the man was a lodge brother. In Chicago, Mrs. Jewel L. Maloney won a divorce after complaining that her husband had reneged on his promise to wash the dishes, make the beds, do the housecleaning. In San Francisco, Mrs. Margaret E. Dayton, who complained that her husband constantly made her eat venison, won a divorce on the ground of cruelty...
Last Tuesday I made my monthly visit to see my fortune teller. I found him sitting alone on an oriental rug gazing moodily into his crystal ball. His great white turban was wrapped around his head and a green jewel pinned on the front of it gleamed in the semi-darkness. He was in a deep trance, but I crinkled the bills in my wallet and he snapped...
...whirring wheel, dresses its edge with diamond dust and lubricant as it saws slowly into the big, water-clear crystal on the cutting stand. But the big crystal under the wheel is not a diamond. It is quartz, the most abundant of all minerals but a newly prized jewel of war. Once ground to size, it is the governor of ship, plane and tank communications, an indispensable monitor of the accuracy of range-finding instruments and fire-control devices...