Word: moonbeams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When she was returning to Britain from the U. S. four years ago, British dogcatchers stuffed Mrs. Patrick Campbell's Pekingese, Moonbeam, into a crate labeled "rabies," hustled him, "shrieking with indignation," into quarantine. Next day Actress Campbell snatched Moonbeam from the official clutch, sailed back to the U. S., eventually settled in Paris. Last week, still miffed, still dandling Moonbeam, she soliloquized: "It was easier for me to sacrifice the happiness of giving my talent to my English audience . . . than to break my little dog's heart...
Meanest of tricks is to tell a wealthy woman that the best way to clean her Oriental pearls is to swish them through boiling water. As the pearls heat they will lose their moonbeam lustre, may crack and the wealthy lady will grow frantic. Yet last week all Japan honored a short, stocky, crinkly-faced old man who had rolled up his kimono sleeves, seized a blunt spade and vigorously shoveled into a fiery furnace 720,000 of his best pearls. Within three minutes they turned to flaky ashes (crystallized lime...
...moonbeam, a birthday, a treasure chest, a skyscraper and a reality engaged Henry Latham Doherty of Cities Service Co. last week...
...Moonbeams entered the festivities that night. A mirror on the 64th floor and a photoelectric cell were employed to carry Mr. Doherty's voice by moonbeam power to a microphone while he spoke over a nationwide radio hookup, greeting the members of Doherty's Men's Fraternity (employes). More moonbeams were used to close a switch turning on the building's floodlights...
...years, finds that his niece is in love with the long-dead murderer's son. He almost breaks up this romance, but the War and his advanced age finally thaw his hatred. Thereupon, by a sort of reverse Peter Ibbetson arrangement, his deceased sweetheart comes down a moonbeam, to" take him away with...