Word: jewells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Services standpoint. Army and Navy appropriations, zooming higher and higher to astronomical figures, have slipped through the frightened Imperial Diet and House of Peers with lightning celerity, whether Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi had the money or had to borrow it. The new Premier has been a General's jewel. He, easy-going Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito (retired), has constantly deferred to the military caste, represented in his Cabinet by Lieut.-General Sadao Araki...
...Christ," all rife with much the same sort of atmosphere, thrills and shocks. Most of them had castles with ghostly portrait galleries, musty, deserted wings where mysterious manuscripts telling of some "awful" murder or horrible deed were discovered. The heroine is beautiful, but elusive. "Her mind is . . . like a jewel contained in a most beautiful casket." The hero is a brunette; and like the protagonists in Horatio Alger stories, he begins a peasant boy, to rise to great heights. The villain has the miraculous ability of always appearing suddenly at the crucial moment to torment his victims. And there...
...taxpayers' money, a far advance beyond Denver's first City Hall, a floorless log cabin on the treeless plain of 1860. Where once was heard only the coyote's howl, now stands a clocktower capable of rendering the four-note Cambridge quarters. The clock, crowning jewel of the coronet, is the gift of the relict of Denver's long-time (1904-12, 1916-18) Mayor Robert W. Speer who conceived and planned the Civic Centre on the sand hill...
...Jewel Robbery (Warner Bros.) recommends to tycoons' velvet-cased wives and to wellspoken jewel robbers that they get together. Kay Francis is a Viennese who has a husband and a lover but is looking for a Man. She identifies herself as "shallow and weak" but a Woman. After a romp in a morning bath three feet deep in suds, a relay encased in towels from maid to maid, a gradual insinuation into the usual clothing and some gay prattle with a friend, Kay Francis toward evening goes to a jewel shop with husband, lover and friend. She meets...
...antique Satsuma." Connoisseurs reject as probably spurious any large piece, since the ancient Satsuma craftsmen whose work is so highly prized confined themselves almost exclusively to small pieces distinguished first by their lustrous glaze, second by the extreme thinness of the hairlike crackle lines and finally by the jewel-like glow and brilliance of the minutely intricate enamel painting. Nearly all "antique Satsuma" sold today is spurious, distinguished first by lustreless colors which result from artificial aging and second by crackles wide enough to have rubbled into them the grime of spurious centuries. Modern Satsuma when offered frankly as such...