Word: somerset
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...carat Tiffany Diamond, one of the largest yellow diamonds in the world. The gem, since reset in a brooch known as "Bird on a Rock," pictured, is itself now one of the biggest stars in "Bejewelled by Tiffany, 1837-1987." The exhibition-at the Gilbert Collection, Somerset House in London until Nov.26 and expected to travel to China and Japan later this year-traces the irresistible rise of Tiffany & Co. from its inception in 1837 as a small fancy-good store on New York City's Broadway, and how the company instilled its jewelry with what curator Clare Phillips calls...
...restrain runaways who are too fragile to survive on the outside, Administrator Edward Farmilant of Chicago's Somerset nursing home gave the front door guard pictures of 36 patients who might make a break for it. "I may be violating their civil rights," he says, "but many would be in danger on the streets." Administrators often see a breakout coming. Says Levine: "When residents get very quiet, we know they are thinking about leaving." Levine stopped one repeater by simply converting him from prisoner to guard. Now he is an "underground security agent" who watches the back door...
...feel now. For years I'd been hearing people say that the world is going to the dogs, and 9/11 was the first time I began to think they were right." Morris has seen enough of that world to know where it is heading. Born James Morris in Somerset to an English mother and Welsh father, he spent the final years of World War II as a British army intelligence officer in Palestine and Italy before going off to study English at Oxford. He married Elizabeth Tuckniss, daughter of a colonial tea planter, and talked his way into a reporting...
Sophomores Makenna Salaverry, Megan Malone and Somerset Tullius were among a crowd of 2,500 that gathered on a CU field to protest antimarijuana laws. Campus police posted photos of them and 150 other protesters on a university website the next day, offering $50 rewards to anyone who identified the students. More than 40 NO TRESPASSING signs had been posted to deter rallygoers, and the students are accused of trespassing, not cannabis use. Says CU spokesman Barrie Hartman: "We're trying to send the message we don't like this event and we want it to go away...
...Garbo, but she was radiantly appetizing...her presence was like breakfast on a sunny morning," Christopher Isherwood confessed to his diary in 1941 when he was a recent arrival in Hollywood, writing scripts for MGM. Nine pages later, he's not only describing the Marx Brothers jumping all over Somerset Maugham, "screaming like devils," but also watching Aldous Huxley and Charlie Chaplin singing old London music-hall songs on the Santa Monica Pier. No wonder the unchanging center of Isherwood's life, the Hindu Vedantist teacher Swami Prabhavananda, asked his worldly disciple to bring the Duke of Windsor...