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Hung against her poop like a great comb of brilliants, a huge electric sign F-R-A-N-C-E made the French Liner France a vessel unique as she moved through her Mediterranean cruise last' week.

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Five days a week, 14 hours a day, he squints through nine newspapers and bends over his typewriter like a jeweler, chipping and polishing at the hard little brilliants for his program.

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She finally disclosed that she had made it herself out of some old tulle and brilliants she "found around the house" and it "represented absolutely nothing at all."

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For her trouble the Turkish Government awarded her Turkey's highest aviation honor, a medal set with brilliants.

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Except a few brilliants in her girdle and her cap, she showed no other trace of that Asiatic splendour which is still affected by many other women of this country.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de