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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Tsarol Baubles | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...diamond stickpin "on account of trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Oct. 11, 1926 | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

Lady Willingdon, brunette, in-clined to plumpness, presented the purser with a diamond stickpin, "on account of the trouble we have given on the way over." Viscount Willingdon, slender, a head taller than his wife, chatted before debarking with Premier King who had come on board as the ship entered the harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Canadian Satrap | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...slumber-babyish. Expression in thought-"gets things done." General expression - extremely married, prosperous. Clothes - standard, brown or gray; white piping in vest. (He would feel naked without fountain pen and silver pencil in vest pocket.) Neck-tie-purple knitted or tapestry with stringless brown harps among blown palms; snakehead stickpin with opal eyes. Jewelry-Boosters' Club lapel button; elk-tooth watch-chain pendant. Spectacles-huge, frameless, with gold ear-crooks. Shoes-black, laced, uninteresting.-ED. Pessimist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 16, 1926 | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...after tomorrow between 8 and 9 in the morning, and between 1 and 2, and 5 and 6 in the afternoon to give information concerning articles supposedly taken from students' rooms. The articles now in the hands of the Police are as follows: a diamond and a cameo stickpin; two gold watches; a pair of mother-of-pearl cuff links, and four gold necktie clasps; a bear-skin coat, and a dress coat and vest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Information About Lost Articles | 3/4/1913 | See Source »

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