Word: pearled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...American readers have an advantage). In addition, it gives later published facts about subjects that are in the center of the news, thus being able to bring off a good, all-round article about an event which has not yet been cleared up in the daily papers (e.g., the Pearl Harbor scandal...
...Foot] is beautiful as a star it's a dream repainted in watercolors on a pearl ... his whole body is full of the light of a thousand lighted electric bulbs-his trousers are inflated with all the perfumes of Arabia his hands are transparent peace and pistachio ice cream-the oysters of his eyes enclose suspended gardens...
...nation was not doing much worrying. This did not mean that the average citizens agreed with Sears, Roebuck's General Robert E. Wood, pre-Pearl Harbor leader of the America First Committee, who concluded that Europe was finished, who suggested that 20 to 30 million Britons, Belgians and Hollanders should move elsewhere, and proposed to write Europe off except for some "charity." There was endless grumbling, particularly in the Midwest, about U.S. exports of goods and foodstuffs. But millions in the U.S. were resigned to the idea that something had to be done in Europe-and that...
Perils of Pauline. Betty Hutton in a brassy, amusing biography of Pearl White, queen of the silent serials (TIME, July...
Perils of Pauline. Betty Hutton in a brassy, amusing biography of Pearl White, queen of the silent serials (TIME, July...