Word: stickpin
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...year-old Frank Hague wasted no time in gloating. With his old-fashioned starched collar tight above a chaste pearl stickpin, he went out to remind the people of his years of toil in their behalf. With revival-meeting fervor the Boss told his followers that he was still pure at heart: "Let them point to one blemish on my record as mayor of Jersey City!" Liberation Candidate Paul E. Dougherty almost blew a gasket. Cried he: "... On a salary of never more than $8,000 he can own a summer home worth $125,000, a home in Miami...
Washington's 50-odd never-say-die civic groups gloomed, got ready to say die. The city's 187,266 Negroes had reason to be apprehensive. This was The Man who had survived umpteen fragrant political scandals to campaign again in red necktie and diamond-horseshoe stickpin. After eight years as Governor of his state, The Man left Mississippi's educational efficiency rating in 47th place. Grateful Mississippians then sent Poll-taxer Bilbo to the Senate. There he showed his mettle by suggestions such as that all the nation's economic ills might be cured...
Factory Boss Ruete told young Charlie Wilson to study engineering and accounting at night, and fired his protégé with a burning ambition: to own a diamond stickpin like the one which glittered from Bill Ruete's tie. When Bill died, he willed Charlie his stickpin, but by that time stickpins had gone out of fashion...
...house also needed him. The life that had been compounded of good things for little girls while he was alive crashed to its tearless ruin with his death. Louise, who was twelve when he died, could remember the diamonds in the eyes of his bulldog stickpin, and how she hid her dolls under the covers and made Father sit on a chair, so he would not sit on the dolls when he came to say goodnight. He took everything to the grave with him-money (he had signed too many notes), friends, family standing, a way of life...
...Groton School. At Groton he learned another syllable of the word "impeccable." What else he did there, no one can now recall. At Harvard he made no teams, was a member of no club. He is remembered principally as a fastidious dresser who wore stiff collars and a stickpin in his tie. He roomed with Horatio Nelson Slater, wealthy Bostonian, and in 1914 married Slater's sister Esther, a brunette beauty...