Word: trinket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever-increasing number of motorists are becoming thoroughly fed up with the overweighted, undersprung, swerving, swaying, tire-screeching, chrome-splashed, trinket-laden, gas-eating monsters that Detroit has been forcing upon the American public...
...Brady earned his nickname with Tiffany diamonds, and an admirer of Sarah Bernhardt ordered for her a bicycle set with diamonds and rubies. Tiffany's even made horseshoes for the thoroughbreds of Tobacco Millionaire P. Lorillard. Steelmaker Charles Schwab once strolled into Tiffany's to buy a trinket for his wife, saw a 60-carat diamond pendant he liked, wrote out a check for $91,000 and strolled out with his gift...
...Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce gave the Duke of Edinburgh a trinket for his son Prince Charles: a set of bagpipes, one-third normal size, whose "effect is, to a Scotsman, most musical and quite inspiring...
...cuff links. J. AUGUST in the Square, has just what these frustrated fellows need. This handsome leather stud box is lovely to look at, light to carry, and has many uses. Its sturdy walls will hold shirt collar bones, tie-pins, collar pins, and that horrible little trinket she gave you "just for love." The leather box costs only...
...interview with Mahatma Gandhi shortly before his death. "He apologized for receiving us in a reclining position, explaining that he was still weak from his recent fast ... I asked Gandhi if he would accept the American ballpoint pen I had in my vest pocket." When secretaries scrambled for the trinket, "turning to me [Gandhi] said with a wan smile, 'You see how I am surrounded by selfish sinners...