Word: jewells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forced to quit as Chief of the Paris Police. Soaring with him over the steaming, noisome jungle went his swank second wife, Dutch relict of a U. S. soap manufacturer, Michael Winburn (Omega, Cadum). So far as could be learned, the $390,000 contents of Mme Renard's jewel case are either lost in the Congo or stolen by some ignorant black. In Paris last week undertakers mended the seven mangled bodies. This week M. Le Gouverneur General will lie in state with his wife and airmen...
Soon the executioners entered. Yurovsky announced the sentence of death, cut short the Tsar's agonized protest with a bullet from his revolver. The Cheka gunmen opened fire. Last to fall was the parlormaid, who shielded herself with the jewel-packed pillow, ran screaming back & forth. She was killed with bayonets. When they examined the bodies they found that the Grand Duchess Anastasia had merely fainted. When she had been shot, the executioners wrapped the bodies in cloth, loaded them on a truck and carried them ten miles to an abandoned mine, where they were dismembered, burnt on gasoline...
...Detroit Art Institute last week was holding an impressive exhibition of Persian art. Though borrowed entirely from Manhattan Collector Hagop Kevorkian, it was a show worth the most chauvinistic Detroiter's time. On display were dozens & dozens of luminous blue-green pots, plates, vases, more than 100 jewel-like miniatures, illustrations for books and unbound manuscripts that first brought Persian art to the attention of the Western world...
...18th Century's master miniaturist, Jean Baptiste Jacques Augustin; 56 by the British master, Richard Cosway; and one called Group of Five Persons in a Landscape said to be the only miniature ever painted by Jean Antoine Watteau. Prize of the collection is The Armada Jewel, a minuscule painting sent by Queen Elizabeth to Sir Francis Walsingham, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, for his help in outfitting the English fleet that defeated Spain. The jewel's face bears a gold relief profile bust of the Queen. Inside the reverse side is another portrait of Elizabeth by Nicholas...
...resourceful criminologist Scotland Yard lost when he donned the cloth. As a consolation he steeped himself in the lore of the underworld. Consequently he was thoroughly equipped to deal with the situation when he and his sister walked into a rural public house on the heels of an ingenious jewel robbery...