Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later, he bought the Jonker diamond, recognized as the world's fourth biggest uncut stone † ; and the President Vargas, third biggest, and Venezuela's smaller Libertador. He paid $2,100,000 for the three, cut them into 45 smaller stones and sold the lot for nearly...
...Appointment Only. A big buyer of African stones, Winston now mines diamonds in Venezuela, employs 400 cutters and polishers in Amsterdam, New York City and Puerto Rico, grosses $20 million a year. In his Manhattan showrooms, browsing is not encouraged; jewels are usually shown only by appointment. The average sale: $5,000. Winston also turns out engagement rings which Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. sells for as little as $37.50, and makes jewels for some 750 U.S. retail stores. Winston keeps track of every gem in his store at all times. If a single stone is mislaid, no one leaves...
...this poem, as to others, Empson has provided notes to help the reader of good will. He says of the passage: "[The god is here] Noah or Neptune managing the sea. The point is to get puns for both violent disorder and building a structure . . . Cope-coping-stone and to manage, groynes-breakwaters, the meet of Gothic arches, the sex of the horses. The same kind of control is needed inside your head, a place also round and not well known (miner-"minor"), and it requires chiefly a clarifying connection with the outside world, e.g., by the arches...
...Calus P. R. Gossels, William H. Holden, albert J. Klingel, John Lowis, Benhamin F. MacDonald, Robert D. Mohlman, John G. Mercy, Edward P. Morrissey, Charles E. Nelson, Daniel I. Pack, Chase N. Peterson, Harvey Robinson, Costas C. Rodis, Richard m. Sandler John J. Shea, Charles W. Sullivan Elhanen C. Stone, Robert B. Thompson, William J. T. Willis...
...started the Saturday night the Harvard Rugby Club arrived. Pan-American Airways, the driving host of the tourist trade, was holding a Welcome-Farewell formal ball at the Elbow Beach Surf Club. Some collegians, it seems, were leaving, and some were arriving; PAA were killing two birds with one stone. Refreshments, however, were not on the house...