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Miss Stoner's story was that she had given Mr. Loeb an $8,000 ruby bracelet to be repaired, that she later saw him with another woman who was wearing the bracelet, that when she protested Mr. Loeb punched her in the chest and face, kicked her and generally abused her. She caused Mr. Loeb to be arrested, took her story to court...
...knocked-out Mr. Daugherty with a blackjack. Then they grabbed little Lottie Pickford and drove away with her, beating and kicking her, taking $75 away from her. They did not get her diamond rings because she hid them in her shoes. While they were trying to rip a platinum bracelet from her wrist, she screamed at them in Spanish. This caused them to stop molesting her and set her free. . . . Thus, the story, as told next day by little Lottie Pickford...
Boathooks jabbed at a semi-skeleton from which half the flesh had sloughed away. Seeing a glint of gold at the wrist, Captain Bougrad warned his men not to let it slip off. When peered at it proved to be an identification bracelet engraved: Captain Loewenstein, 315 Rue de la Science, Brussels...
Culled from the grim pages of Author Loos's comedy, the subtitles have the brilliance and at least part of the durability of a diamond bracelet, which, as Lorelei Lee remarked in a wisecrack which has since been heard around the world, will last forever. Altogether, in its slyly sympathetic exposition of gold-digging as a fine art, the picture has precisely the delicious flavour of its literary model...
...daughters were obliged to pay $56,363 in fines to the U. S. Treasury, which followed its rule of giving publicity to "flagrant cases" of smuggling by persons "well able to pay a just duty." The fines represented the foreign value, plus duty, plus 100%, on a diamond bracelet* and various garments. Mrs. Busch's daughters received a thoroughgoing lecture from Supervising Agent James F. McConnachie of the Treasury Department. Mrs. Loeb's acquaintance in Chicago received some $14,000 as a reward for the information...