Word: pearle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington the Army handed out a flamboyantly written 32,000-word report from Douglas MacArthur's headquarters -the story of a Russian spy ring in Japan before Pearl Harbor. Chief of the ring was a slick German Communist named Dr. Richard Sorge, a lady-killing, hard-drinking grandson of Karl Marx's secretary, who wormed himself into a job as press attaché on the German Embassy staff in Tokyo. He was able to warn Moscow of the German attack on Russia 33 days before it took place. In October 1941 the Japs caught him and later hanged...
Along the swarming Pearl River Bund flashed U.S.-patterned advertisements using scantily clad, busty female forms to sell everything from cosmetics to waterproof wristwatches. Farther uptown, smartly dressed taxi dancers helped tired Chinese and foreign businessmen while away their evenings at California-style restaurants and cabarets to the strains of Rum Boogie and Springtime in the Rockies...
...After Pearl Harbor she fell in with a Foreign Office radio official named Max Otto Koischwitz. Koischwitz, who had once been a professor at New York's Hunter College, was a man of influence. That, plus Mildred Gillars' soft and insinuating American voice, brought her a highly paid job-opportunity to show her talent. Soon she was doing her best to undermine the morale of U.S. troops, was famed from Africa to Italy as Axis Sally...
...shouted at Arias, reaching for his hip. "I was one of Villa's Golden Ones!" "And I am from Michoacán!" snarled Arias. Alva drew his .45 Colt automatic; Arias leveled his pearl-handled .38 at the general's middle. Without saying anything more, he squeezed the trigger three times. The general sank to the black-&-white marble tiles, fired once before he hit the floor. Once was enough: his slug ripped through the police chief's heart...
...black town car built for Mrs. Alfred P. Sloan Jr., wife of G.M.'s board chairman. It has interior fittings of silver, a chauffeur's umbrella, a pearl-grey clipped sheepskin carpet, a short-wave telephone, a gold compact, and a lifetime fountain pen. Nearby was a gunmetal "hardtop" convertible designed for President Wilson and christened the Coup de Ville. Upholstered in pleated gunmetal leather, it has a telephone, pull-out desk and engraved vanity case. ("Not that I use powder," quipped Wilson...