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...already diamond-bespangled toilet. She may have reflected that the Koh-i-nor weighs only 106 1/16 carats. She perhaps yearned secretly for the 516 ½ carat fragment of the 3025 ¾ carats (before cutting) Cullinan Diamond, the chief diadem of the British Crown. Or conceivably Her Majesty remembered that a common "engagement size" diamond (roughly 3/16 inches in diameter) weighs approximately ½ carat. The Queen-Empress, no diamond glutton, donned and adjusted inconspicuously...
...court, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Both grew quipful last week when the Committee considered an appeal by the Canadian Ministry of Finance against a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada respecting one Cecil Smith, confessed bootlegger. Succinctly put, the question at issue was: "Ought the Crown to reap taxes from incomes known to be drawn from illegal sources, or is the $90,000 annual income of Cecil Smith nontaxable because he is a bootlegger...
Attorney Britt (council for Bootlegger Smith) : "But suppose a man should set himself up as a professional murderer of Cabinet Ministers . . . . Would not the Crown refuse to receive taxes from the murderer's source of income, lucrative though it might...
...Clauson (attorney for the Crown) : "One has only to look into a man's pockets, and if there are profits there, that is enough for the tax gatherer. I do not say that if the pockets be full of stolen spoons one spoon should be taken as a tax on burglary. There is a valid distinction between profits and loot...
...racing sails taken out of their boxes, his boat was as dry as when it started. He had brought it over to win the Norwegian gold cup and this, after three days of racing and after having been disqualified in one race, it did, beating a yacht owned by Crown Prince Olaf