Word: jewellers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jewel Tea Economist William Tongue sums up the mood: "Where we used to have rumbling pessimism, we now have rumbling optimism." The optimism, however, is restrained: stability rather than boom is the general expectation. And stability, though preferable to a recession, is nothing to cheer about in an economy that has not boomed for five years. Says Swift & Co. Chief Economist Willard Arant: "Economists have fallen into the bad habit of thinking that if we stay even, then we aren't in a recession. But when you don't measure up to a growth trend, you are actually...
...sunset-pink gown was smashing all right, but it was Princess Margaret's new hairdo that set the crowd at London's glittering Dockland Settlements Ball atwitter. Obviously inspired by some Grecian yearn, it was swept abruptly back from her forehead and fixed with jewel-studded pins above and behind her ears. The effect was a kind of outsized ponytail with the ends curled back along Meg's shapely neck. "It can't be all her," whispered one Lady, smelling a royal rat. "Of course it's not," said another. Only her hairdresser knew...
...officers to get clearance to see generals to allow soldiers to speak to scholars-if they could or would. Result: twelve sound monographs produced by a 500-man team under command of a major general who, in the words of Historian Baxter, "treasured John Kemper as one would a jewel...
...delighted adults and children alike; of cancer of the pancreas; in Manhattan. Son of a Belgian painter and a Bavarian brewer's daughter. Bemelmans worked as a hotel waiter, opened his own restaurant, became a bon vivant and peopled his books and canvases with epileptic Ecuadorian generals, French jewel thieves. American ladies in feather boas, and a Parisian moppet named Madeline. "The purpose of art," he once said, "is to console and amuse-myself, and, I hope, others...
...addition to a circular which described the stones and was shipped to museums and jewel dealers all over the country, the University museum has issued several other pamphlets to supplement the additional information...