Word: medallioned
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...dins, everyone!" First, imported sardines, then chicken croquettes in white wine sauce, with a few Yummies to follow. That's for Samantha. For Buddy, there are flamed medallion of beef and vitamin-enriched doughnuts. Carol's getting fruit treats...
Rumors that the Vatican had been burgled began to circulate last May, when one of the Holy See's security officers discovered by chance a one-of-a-kind gold religious medallion in the window of a Roman coin shop. It had been missing from the Pope's apartment since 1969. The original seller was traced to his job at the telephone exchange, where he protested, none too convincingly, that he was just an innocent hobbyist who had bought the medal for a song from coworkers. Within the month, three other telephone men had been arrested, and details...
Just how much the collectors of such objects stand to profit is open to question. For its "limited edition" of 51,000 sets of silver presidential medals, the Wittnauer Precious Metals Guild advertises that "525 Grains of Solid Sterling Silver in every medallion puts you well on your way to amassing a private Treasury of this precious metal." The first medal sells for $1, and the rest in the series cost $10 each. But 525 grains of silver are worth only about $2 in the wholesale market. The Silver Coalition Ltd. offers a series of out-of-print U.S. currency...
...French bring a new language to international crime; the army of ordinary racketeers, for instance, is known simply as the "milieu." The Corsican gang boss ordinarily carries his identification in plain sight-a watch-fob medallion bearing the Moor's-head crest of Corsica. Like the Mafia, the Union Corse has a code of honor, the word of a gangster is supposed to be his bond. The difference is that Mafiosi are forever doublecrossing each other-hence the present gang war in New York-while the Corsicans usually keep their word. Members of the Mafia usually submit internal disputes...
...this case, the power is conferred by Scientist P.T. Jones (read: George Washington Carver) on a young black student-athlete named Steve Thomas with peanuts soaked in the mysterious chemical X. Wearing a slave-chain medallion, a cloth suit with the curse of Nat Turner upon it, and special boots that will enable him to fly by "lifting yourself by your own bootstraps," Black Man, the Soul Wonder of the World, sets out to "rid the universe of poverty, crime and racial bigotry." His arch enemies are Rodent, who breeds on filth and spreads disease; Riot, an immense black gone...