Word: trinket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada and Britain, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru arrived back home just in time to celebrate his 60th birthday. Cheering crowds greeted him at the airport and along the route to a huge public meeting in Bombay, where he accepted from admiring countrymen a $30,000 trinket: a foot-long miniature of the Asoka Pillar (whose crest is the Great Seal of India), made of gold and twinkling with 60 diamonds...
...Ultrafax is no table-top trinket. In the cut of the receiving apparatus, a "flying spot" of light is in the cylinder at the upper right. The film runs through the square camera box below it. The rest of the big cabinet is full of electron tubes and "monitoring" equipment. The pretty girl, the clock and the book are decorations...
...kind of a guy who would gladly travel to the Opera House and pay the price of admission just to see Bobby Clark flick ashes in a poor play. Last night I did just that. I saw Mike Todd's latest, a trinket--it looks like about a third of a million dollars' worth of trinket--called "As the Girls Go." The show was lavish, polished, populated with every pretty girl this side of Billy Rose--and dull...
Princess Sophie von Hesse could hardly be expected to face a second marriage unadorned by at least one trinket from the storied family jewel chest...
...spring a housewife's fancy turns to thoughts of cleaning. Britain in the wake of war was as restless and ruthless as any of them. In her musty old attic many an outworn, heart-warming trinket of tradition was being dusted off, examined and discarded in the harsh light of accuracy and efficiency...