Word: lockets
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...Ivar. like Aristide. was past thinking and past explaining. At 11 a.m. he had shuttered the blinds of his unostentatiously elegant flat at No. 5 Avenue Victor Emmanuel and lain down neatly on his bed. Then he had drawn aside his black coat and the leather locket with the gold coin that always rested on his breast like a superstitious token of his only god. and shot himself with a 9-mm. Browning pistol, neatly through the middle of his heart...
When the smugglers have gone, Johnnie starts to skedaddle home, and accidentally tweaks off the corpse's beard, whereupon he notices a locket slung around the fleshless neck. Inside the locket is a ciphered message that leads, after two murders and a mort of escapes and chases, to a diamond "as big as a pigeon's egg" that lies hidden in the wall of an ancient well in Caris-brooke Castle. Thence away to a fence for such merchandise in The Hague, who cheats poor Johnnie out of his diamond and lands him aboard a brig bound...
...inspiration to researchers who will begin work at the foundation next year, Fleming left with his hosts a glass locket, the size of a silver dollar, containing what looked like a pressed blossom. It was part of the original mold from which he extracted penicillin 21 years ago. Then Fleming set out for Rochester, Minn., and other research centers to do some personal research: he wants to know what details other workers have found out about the way penicillin works in the bloodstream. He also wants to learn more about the newer antibiotics: streptomycin, neomycin and aureomycin...
Later, after blackened bodies had been taken in gunny sacks to an improvised morgue, numbed relatives listened to undertakers' assistants: "Does a heart-shaped locket mean anything to anyone? Does a very plain wedding ring worn on the right hand mean anything? Here is a red linen handkerchief with the words 'Bonnie Scotland' on it, and a ruby ring." By week's end the dead were counted at 31, including the special's engine crew...
Playing-Card Faces. Usually designed to be set in lockets and viewed cupped in the hand, the miniatures showed up surprisingly well under the cold glass of the museum's showcases. Most were only two inches in their largest dimension, often pasted on the back of cut-down playing cards, but in their small compass Hilliard had captured much of the sensuous exuberance of the age of Drake, Spenser and Sidney. One was a self-portrait, at 30, fine-featured and candid-eyed, painted against Hilliard's favorite indigo-blue background. The biggest...