Word: jewells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...penniless Philadelphia musician pawned a gold, jewel-studded, key-winding watch bearing the inscription: "To Benjamin Franklin, in memoriam, September 3, 1783, David Hartley...
...before he hit on a way of making his business different from any of the other hundreds of mobile stores weaving in & about Chicago. It was merely the hoary premium plan?with a twist. His brother-in-law thought it was a pretty good idea and they set up "Jewel Tea Co., Skiff & Ross, Proprietors." The idea: give housewives the premium first; let them collect the coupons later...
...Turkish Tobacco Monopoly which had stamped on each the Persian Royal Arms. Meanwhile spry Turks in the sleek-tailed, Frenchified dress suits affected by President Kemal one-stepped and black-bottomed in a fashion to make the King of Kings blink. Stoutly, Persian courtiers insisted to their jewel-bedecked Turkish partners, on whose toes they had a tendency to tread, that "His Majesty is of ancient lineage, the noblest in Mazanderan...
...CHINESE ORANGE MYSTERY-Ellery Queen-Stokes ($2). Ellery and Inspector Queen are balked for a time in a maze of philately and jewel-collecting; but Ellery perspicaciously solves the clue of the "backwards room" and, of course, the murder...
...Union Europeenne has an even more important function. Through it, Schneider-Creusot reaches out to control 230 armament and allied enterprises OUTSIDE France. The greatest of THESE concerns is that glittering jewel in the crown of principal Ideal State that came into being in 1919 as the reseult of the self-determination of oppressed peoples. The state is Czechoslovakia, and its jewel is Skoda...