Word: mother-of-pearl
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...Stephany flew down to Daytona Beach, Fla. from New York, Francis got his divorce from his second wife, the happy couple eloped for a two-minute civil ceremony and were married again in a 30-minute formal Greek Orthodox service-in which the bridal couple wore wreaths of mother-of-pearl orange blossoms (traditional in the Greek Orthodox service). There was one terrible moment when Francis was threatened with a perjury rap (he had picked up the wedding license in August and had listed himself as single). To cap everything, the newlyweds missed their scheduled flight to Rio. The nation...
...sold out his Tokyo mother-of-pearl business, moved to oyster-packed Ago Bay to experiment. In four years he had his first but imperfect pearl. In 19 years he had so perfected his process that few amateurs could distinguish cultured pearls from natural ones...
...diving girls are again bringing up oysters. His 1,500 factory workers are deftly seeding them with a mother-of-pearl bead. Soon he expects to have 1,500,000 oysters working for him. By mass production he hopes within a few years to have prices down to suit the pockets of the masses. His eyes are on his No.1 market, the U.S. Says he: I like Americans best. They are straight-forward-like children...
...Sultan of Sulu, ruler of North Borneo. The grateful Sultan granted him shipping rights in his domain; later, at a resplendent dinner, he let Cowie persuade him to cede sovereignty over North Borneo to a British syndicate (in an expansive mood, the Sultan threw in the mother-of-pearl dessert plates on the table, along with his realm). Cowie, as one of the directors of the new British North Borneo Company, moved into a mud hut and kept a sharp eye on the natives. The Company set up its own Governor, cabinet and judges, to carry civilization into the island...
...Pearl Thighs and Centaur Sweat. Veronica spent most of her time horseback-riding-"the mother-of-pearl pincers of her thighs pressing the animal's flanks and blending with it in a pearly communion of centaur sweat." Betka had had a child before she left Paris: the father was probably the masked aviator, though it might have been three acrobats. But Veronica was not jealous. When she recalled her masked aviator, "her will fluttered like the star-spangled banner...