Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broadway could look back with greater pride on 1946-47 than on any other season since Pearl Harbor. There was no call to use the fancier adjectives; no forgetting a long procession of triteness and trash. But beyond a discernible increase in merit, there was a distinct effect of movement-of a theater aiming to get places, and not just by the same old routes...
...even as the House brandished the ax, a highbrowed, heavy-jowled Congressman from South Dakota was rushing to avert it. To those who best remembered him as a vociferous pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist, Karl Mundt seemed a strange rescuer. In 1939 he had suggested tartly that Americans spend more time "minding our own business instead of . . . meddling in the governments of Europe...
...Benedict Arnold, and a really dressy struggle between the North and the South. The North won, and were right, but the South, who lost, were nicer. After that, nothing happened until . . . some people called doughboys went to Europe and won a war. On Dec. 7, 1941, the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor, and some people called G.I.s had to go out to the Pacific and lick the pants off them...
...practices of peace returned to Hawaii last week. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. military authorities in Hawaii had no scruples about interning 878 Japanese aliens and Jisho Yamazaki. Yamazaki was a priest of the Buddhist Soto cult, which played a great part in whipping up Jap militarism...
...Other Woman. In Seattle, Mrs. Pearl Kendrick, 54, asked for a divorce on grounds of cruelty and abandonment after 64-year-old husband Fred spent three days in bed reading Forever Amber...