Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That decided him. Breathing fire, he leaped into the race for the governorship, tirelessly stumped the state in a piped vest and his "crapshooters coat" (tight, double-breasted grey, with black cuff & collar bindings and pearl buttons). His platform: a thorough statewide house cleaning...
...Sultan of Sulu, ruler of North Borneo. The grateful Sultan granted him shipping rights in his domain; later, at a resplendent dinner, he let Cowie persuade him to cede sovereignty over North Borneo to a British syndicate (in an expansive mood, the Sultan threw in the mother-of-pearl dessert plates on the table, along with his realm). Cowie, as one of the directors of the new British North Borneo Company, moved into a mud hut and kept a sharp eye on the natives. The Company set up its own Governor, cabinet and judges, to carry civilization into the island...
...Pearl Buck, Marquis Childs, Roger Butterfield, Raymond Swing and many others had forwarded autographed pictures for the walls; Author Stuart Cloete had simply sent along a tear-sheet of a whiskey advertisement which showed him as a "Man of Distinction." The staff decided-to leave the red rose designs on the bathtub and the other old-fashioned fixtures just as they were. A sign on the hall door indicated that this was, or had been, the home...
...down and around the melody in East of the Sun and Body and Soul. Some students of the subject say she is the freshest Negro talent since Ella Fitzgerald, the tisket-a-tasket girl, who is the easiest-riding rhythm singer in the business. Another promising Negress: slinky Pearl Bailey, who stops the show with Legalize My Name in Broadway's St. Louis Woman...
...Quezon arrived in Washington as Resident Commissioner to the U.S. from the Filipino people. In 1942, as President of the Commonwealth, he arrived there again, head of a government in exile 9,000 miles from home. The first news of the attack on Pearl Harbor had reached him at Baguio, the Philippine summer capital. While he was still at breakfast, Jap planes were overhead. For two months, from crowded quarters in one of Corregidor's bombproof tunnels, Quezon followed the slow squeeze of Mac-Arthur's army down the rugged peninsula of Bataan...