Word: pearl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...More Sunshine." In Soviet foreign propaganda organs, Birobidjan is described as the "Pearl of the Far East." Last week's advertisements gave details. Birobidjan was on the same latitude as Duluth, Minn., "but with lots more sunshine." Its fertile soil yielded rich crops (wheat, oats, cabbage, rice, soy beans). Its natural resources were rich and variegated (coal, iron ore, gold, graphite, marble, magnesite). Its woods teemed with fur-bearing animals. "According to scientific surveys," the region could maintain a population of at least four million...
...Elizabeth ("Princess Pearl") married a jazz bandsman; Nancy Valerie ("Princess Baba") married and was divorced by a wrestler. Elizabeth, awaiting a divorce, may next marry New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Richards Vidmer, friend of Leonora's Tompkins...
...Reinhold Niebuhr, of Union Theological Seminary, standard bearer of U.S. Protestantism's intellectuals, militant interventionist before Pearl Harbor...
...Outfitted in a fly-front, oxford-grey topcoat, a pearl-grey felt hat which looked as if it had been sat upon, a dark business suit, blue shirt and white collar, the new Hirohito sallied forth on his first campaign tour. It was only his third peek at the world outside his carp-filled moat since the war's end. He left the palace grounds sitting bolt upright in a big, black Mercedes-Benz. Behind streamed a caravan of 40 other cars...
...French, 49 (called Happy because he never looks it), had been shooting oversized hollyhocks, chasing fires and persuading divorcees to pull up their skirts for the camera for 23 years. He never did get much schooling, and was famed for malaprops: he always said "polo bears" and "Remember Pearl Island" and "neon stockings...