Word: stickpins
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Shortcut. In Springfield, Mass., a thief rushed up to Pedestrian Dennis Kneeland, snipped off part of his necktie, missed by an inch getting his $150 diamond stickpin...
...corporation's favored sons, a man marked for tempering and testing under the hard eye of G.E.'s stern President Gerard Swope himself. A year later Bill Ruete died. Just before he passed away, he said: "You know, Charlie, that stickpin of mine has been the secret of your success. You worked your head off for it. So here it is." Charlie locked the pin up in a box and, with a characteristic gesture, added a provision to his will, directing that the pin go to Bill Ruete'c grandnephew...
...last parliamentary appearance as Canada's Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King had put on a black suit, a crisp white shirt, a grey tie with pearl stickpin. Hardly anyone noticed him as he slipped into his chair in the green House of Commons chamber. Only 47 of the 245 members were at their desks. The rest had already left for their summer holidays...
...glad and thankful when my dear overseas friends send a CARE package to me. Perhaps you also could help me by such a parcel." Gus, who once knew Ferdinand's railroad-crazy late son Boris (he once sent Boris a streamlined model electric train and got a diamond stickpin and 16 bottles of rare Bulgarian wine in return), promptly sent a CARE package on its way to papa Ferdinand in Coburg, Germany...
...free skating, Sonja's showmanship was incomparable. She held crowds, kings and skating judges spellbound. Watching Henie skate did queer things to people: ex-Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany once beckoned her to his box and gave her a diamond stickpin he was wearing; Adolf Hitler presented her with a huge picture of himself in a silver frame, flatteringly inscribed; Benito Mussolini simply said: "I wish I could skate like her." Besides skill and showmanship, Sonja possessed a talent for covering up the few technical mistakes she made...