Word: jewellers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the cars in the show are crossbreeds. George Snyder's 1961 Lhevy, "Family Jewel," has a 1958 Chevy front, a 1960 Olds grille, 1953 Chevy parking lights, 1956 Olds headlights, a 1950 Olds windshield, and 1956 Chevy side fins. The engine comes from a 1950 Oldsmobile and supports three Stromberg carbs...
...What a jewel he had won for his treasury...
...guise of a nobleman. From there on, the plot takes every traditional turn imaginable, with ghosts peering from balconies and men dressed as women. By the end, of course, the good Hanswurst gains the hand of the sweet Columbina, Odario wins the coveted Stone of Saxony (a jewel of gigantic proportions), and the cast applauds its own fortunes in the rousing finale ("I love happy endings, they are rather nice...
...Rochas looks and lives as a perfume queen should. Now 43, she has wide cornflower-blue eyes, an engaging smile, a mannequin's figure, a fragile air -and the business reputation of a panther. Her Paris apartment glitters like an open jewel box. Eggs made of jade and amethyst nest on a coffee table, and an 18th century chandelier supports candles set in gold. One night, Premier Georges Pompidou and Franchise Sagan may come to dinner, the next Marlene Dietrich and Gian Carlo Menotti...
...haul. And it was far from clear last week that the Morrises will be allowed to keep the cash. The "finders keepers, losers weepers" rule of thumb dates back to a celebrated case in 1722 when a British court held that a chimney sweep could keep a jewel he had found in a sooty flue. But over the years, specific exceptions to the old saying have been spelled out in an effort to clarify conflicts over accidentally discovered loot. Though practices vary widely, the legal distinctions are based mainly on the way the article was lost and on where...