Word: earrings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faced Woman. In Paris, Schiaparelli showed a new cocktail hat that would make even the lightest drinker see double. One side is a profile of the wearer (see cut), with a glittering brooch to simulate the eye, and a pendant "earring." Price, including jewelry...
Dividends. In Boyne City, Mich., Mrs. Hudson Robinson cut open a fish, found the earring she had lost two years ago at a fish hatchery. In Lancaster, Pa., Fisherman Cyrus Dietrich pulled in his line, found a five-dollar bill on his hook...
Only the most skillfully concealed jewelry, fountain pens, watches or spectacles will escape pilfering from these ruffians. If they should discover an earring or a bracelet hidden in a seam of clothing they not only will take it but also angrily shoot the owner. They snatch all clothing but what is threadbare. Some refugees save their best garments or other belongings by bundling them deep within a burlap bag full of dirty rags, including urine-soaked baby clothes. The foul smell repels the bandits...
...Earring Aid. Minneapolis' Maico Co., Inc. put on sale a hearing aid disguised as an earring. It matches an earring on the other ear. The earring is connected to a 7-oz. instrument which can be concealed in the bosom. Price...
...Portland, Ore., matronly Mrs. Vern C. Edwards, knocked down by a young holdup man, questioned him sympathetically about his motives as she sat on the pavement, rubbing her bruises. Result: the thug courteously helped her to rise, hunted and found her lost earring, kissed her on the cheek and ran off, clutching 50? Mrs. Edwards had given...