Word: pearled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From retirement, Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey had his say about the responsibility for the Pearl Harbor disaster. "In all my experience," he wrote in the Satevepost, "I have never known a Commander in Chief of any United States Fleet who worked harder, and under more adverse circumstances. ... I know of no officer . . . who could have done more than [Admiral Husband E.] Kimmel...
...have made a mess of the world," observed Novelist Pearl Buck, "what a mess women have made of men. Women do nothing because they know nothing and care nothing. . . . The time has come to enlarge the home and include the world...
Perils of Pauline (Paramount) is the best remembered of the old serials which starred Pearl White during the wild, playful childhood of the movies (roughly 1910 to 1920). It is also a new, bright-colored, strident biocomedy about the late Miss White, starring Betty Hutton. Betty starts as a sweatshop girl, moves on to become a dumb theatrical trouper, bursts into bloom as the queen of silent serials, and fades off into a Paris nightclub when movie audiences tire of her innocent melodramatics. On the way up she falls in love with an arrogant stage actor (John Lund) who resents...
Perils is a good-humored show, mainly designed to please people who enjoy hissing the villain. Those who used to be too excited to hiss, and who wildly applauded Pearl's always predictable but always miraculous escapes, will feel there is a good deal missing. The chances are that Pearl herself, with her prominent film career and her long, sporting afterglow in Europe, was a much more interesting woman than is suggested in this movie. It is also possible that a movie which showed the making of those first, primitive flickers as it really happened would be good...
Married. Count Luis de Figueros, 28, one of Spain's richest men (land); and Mary Aline Griffith, 26, daughter of a Pearl River (N.Y.) insurance salesman; in Madrid, where they met while she was a wartime employee of the U.S. embassy...