Word: mother-of-pearl
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...Three jewel boxes containing full dress cufflinks and studs for shirts, finished in Mother-of-pearl and white gold...
...mother, Lillian Russell, was not even acquainted with Mr. Brady during the bicycle era. As for the vehicle itself, it had a goldplated handlebar with mother-of-pearl grips, no diamonds. The pedals were also goldplated. The bicycle was a gift from the Columbia Bicycle manufacturers in appreciation of the vast amount of publicity they derived from her using their product and because she had purchased so many of them, one for each member of the family. . . . DOROTHY RUSSELL...
...come to be her guests at another oldtime Berkshire Festival. The guests were either established musicians or else socially important neighbors from Lenox, Stockbridge, Lee. For a few old friends the hostess stooped from her height (6 ft. 1 in.), endeavored to hear their greetings through the mother-of-pearl earphone she wore clasped to her head. But the guests had plenty to hear because, with her customary generosity, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge* had provided five rich programs of her own chosen chamber music...
Before returning to Tokyo, spry, friendly little Katsuji Debuchi, who has been recalled as Japan's Ambassador to the U. S., presented the Smithsonian Institution in Washington with a two-foot replica of George Washington's home at Mt. Vernon, made of mother-of-pearl and 13,000 pearls. A gift of Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese cultivated pearl tycoon, it had been part of his firm's exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair...
...last week papal dignitaries claimed that with 800 telephones and 500 citizens the Papal State now has more telephones per capita than any other nation. In His Holiness' private study, they announced, electricians will soon set up a solid gold telephone of more than usual size, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, emblazoned with the papal arms on a great gold disc...