Word: opals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Life of the Party. In Indianapolis, the Democratic sheriff's deputies were especially pleased when Democrat Mrs. Opal Kremer took over as county recorder, because her Republican predecessor had kept the door of the toilet locked, refusing to share it with Democrats...
...native chiefs, they were "utterly bored." This week Thomas put U.S. viewers to the test with the first of seven new color travelogues on CBS. Gleeful headhunters waded shoulder-high in scummy New Guinea swamps to catch crocodiles with their bare hands; the barebreasted "debutantes of Kambaramba" skimmed along opal waters in narrow canoes at breathtaking speeds, and Headline-Hunter Thomas appeared every few feet to remind viewers of the "increasing perils." There were hackle-raising scenes of wizened, bedizened village elders carving tribal designs into the backs of young boys in manhood initiation rites, and, water-borne again, Lowell...
...some 100 yen daily out of their earnings to establish a private rehabilitation fund against the gloomy day that dawned last week, but many another had no intention of quitting her calling. For the enterprising individual, there was still future enough in such establishments as Tokyo's New Opal Hotel, which runs a daily ad in English-language Tokyo papers: "Here is the place you pay only 800 yen with your partner to stay overnight including one free drink. Each room with double-sized bed and radio...
...thrown from a horse and broke his hip while only part way over the Hump to India. This part is a major bore. But the moviegoer who .manages to sit still to the end will be rewarded by another glimpse of the almost incredible Himalayan scenery in its opal mood...
...Baltimore she killed an old-lady neighbor in her 80s, Mrs. Clara Post, by simply pushing her over a bannister into a stairwell. That way Rhoda got an opal pendant which Mrs. Post had promised to leave her when she died. Rhoda was seven then. Rhoda was a good student. In the old maids' school she tried earnestly to win the penmanship medal. When she lost it to another student, she snatched it from him at the annual school picnic, then shoved him off a dock and drowned him to cover the theft...