Word: stickpins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comfortable stucco Craigwell House. Standing by the door were butlers, footmen, cooks, grooms, gardeners, royal marines-all who had served and guarded the King during his illness. Through the door came Their Majesties, snugly buttoned up, and as they passed down the line each servant received either a gold stickpin or a pair of gold cufflinks, blue enameled with the royal monogram. Into the car behind the King's stepped Sir Stanley Hewett, His Majesty's physician, and four trained nurses entered another automobile. The three cars moved...
...Cynthiana, Ky., one Homer Reeves, Hooverite, shot & killed one Ferd Lyons, Smithite. In Spencer, West Va., one E. H. Huffman shot one Clyde Moore. In Brooklyn, one Walter McCann, realtor, with a diamond stickpin, diamond ring and $600 in Hoover bets, was fed knock-out drops and virulent poison, robbed and left dead near a speakeasy. In Boston, Miss Gertrude Ryan, secretary to U. S. Representative George Tinkham, told the police that a carful of young Democrats crowded her automobile off the road, maltreated herself and sister, beat her nephew. In Worcester, Mass., a parade of 10,000 Hooverites...
...Angeles, Calif., Capt. John Olson of the S. S. Quinalt eyed himself in his mirror, removed his $500 diamond stickpin, detached his necktie, laid them on the shelf over the basin, shaved. Soon he gave a shout, raced from his cabin dived overboard, swam to the Quinalt's scuppers, trod water, cupped his hands beneath the pouring stream of wastage. His anxious frown became a glad grin when the $500 diamond stickpin tumbled out and he caught...
Other marvels: 1) the "stickpin watch" of Nicholas II, thin as a dime and half its diameter, varying not one minute in a month; 2) a jeweled "orange tree," eight inches high, the leaves of emeralds, with ruby fruits, diamond flowers, the whole opening at the pressure of a button to display an enameled nightingale, singing and flapping its wings; 3) the plain gold and ivory rattle, ordered by sensible Catherine the Great for her children; 4) a gold stage-coach four inches long and an inch and a half high with a 20-carat diamond* cut like a lantern...
...diamond stickpin "on account of trouble...