Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When this dark young guy gave her the long look in a New York subway car, something happened to blonde, empty-headed Pearl Lusk. Here was Mr. Excitement in person-sharp, smiling, hefty; a lonesome Latin with a George Raft face, and a slow burn in his eye. The minute 19-year-old Pearl saw him, she began to feel pleasantly jittery...
...dark man said his name was Allen La Rue. Over drinks, he told Pearl that he was an insurance detective. He was after one jewel thief in particular-a woman he said toted her loot in a hip-belt under her dress. Somehow, he had to catch her with the jewels...
Died. Hugh Robert Wilson, 61, last U.S. ambassador to Nazi Germany, whose recall in 1938 "for report and consultation" ended full diplomatic relations between the two countries three years before Pearl Harbor; after long illness; in Bennington...
Bedfellow. In Des Moines, Mrs, Pearl Price sued for divorce, complained that Husband John, although in perfect health, had gone to bed seven years before, was still there...
...morning of Pearl Harbor itself, Zacharias was at sea in command of the heavy cruiser Salt Lake City. Ten months earlier, however, he had gone to call on Admiral Kimmel, "to lay before him my analysis and perhaps to place my knowledge of Japanese psychology at his disposal. . . . I told the Admiral . . . that if Japan decided on war with us she would open hostility with an air attack . . . probably on a Sunday morning...