Word: jewellers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...revolution in the Art of War' ") and deflated ("the proprietors of private madhouses had their hands so full that they were obliged to shut their doors . . ."). In 1727 the old King died and the coronation of George Augustus and pomp-loving Caroline (who had a "petticoat so heavily jewel-encrusted that it was found necessary to contrive a sort of pulley that en abled her to raise the hem when she knelt down") ushered in the Augustan...
...exchange) in his pocket has no trouble at all in getting in touch with men quite willing to give him two or three times the "official" rate of exchange. (Example: officially there are 140 leis to $1; on the Black Bourse $1 will bring as high as 400.) The jewel mart is doing a land-office business with those Polish aristocrats who could bring only such small objects along as they could carry in their hands and pockets...
...line. It looked as though India's leaders would rally their followers to defend the one thing they have wanted to see ended for over two decades, Britain's Empire; to maintain something they themselves do not have, democracy. But last week Britain clumsily chipped the biggest jewel in her crown...
Orchard, who was held last June as a material witness to a jewel robbery case, claims of fifty dollars and has spent considerable energy trying to regain...
...Coughlin network this week.* Radiomen recalling that Father Coughlin had turned down an invitation to talk on NBC's Town Meeting of the Air on "Americanism" last year, concluded that the radio pries disliked controversy, or-more likely-that ostracism from the major network was too precious a jewel to lose from a martyr's crown for half an hour's free time...