Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems to be always on Sunday-there were ominous troop movements in Saigon. Reportedly the operation was directed by Brigadier General Nguyen Chanh Thi, the mustached, intense commander of the I Corps in the northern region, and Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, who affects harlequin glasses and a pearl-handled revolver. Squads of police sped through Saigon's darkened streets, arresting seven council members and a dozen-odd politicians and student leaders...
...Whitney, Newsman Chet Huntley and Actress Joan Crawford. Hedda Hopper was even more personal about it all, sent cards bearing her own portrait. Mother Jolie Gabor sent photographs of herself and her daughters, included a lengthy message: "Come and have a glass of champagne with me at my fabulous pearl salon . . . my charming girls will be more than happy to give you ideas on how to get or give a glamorous Christmas present from...
Died. Walter Gibson, 63, Wall Street broker widely credited as the sole inventor of the subspecial martini that bears his surname; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As a habitue of the Ritz in Paris, Gibson gratified two hitherto mutually exclusive tastes, for dry gin and pickled pearl onions, by schooling the bartender to substitute a single Allium cepa for the conventional olive in his favorite cocktail. His claim was coldly, drily disputed, however, by those who attributed the gin-onion union to Artist Charles Dana Gibson or the late Will Gibson, Gene Tunney's primetime manager...
...Yugoslavia who eloped four years ago with Seventh Avenue Manufacturer Howard Oxenberg, still lends an air of royalty to the social circuit. But most titled ladies are simple American girls who married romantic foreigners. Spain's Countess Quintanilla, for instance, was plain Mary Aline Griffith, daughter of a Pearl River, N.Y., insurance salesman...
Schlesinger Jr., America and the First World War by Edwin N. Kaufman, A Biography of Old Hickory by Robert M. Shaw, Ordeal of the Union by Allan Nevins, The American Immigrant by Gerhard Engelmeier, Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision by Roberta Wohl-setter, Columbus by Leslie H. Hawkins, Slavery and the Civil War by Harold Stevenson Robards, The Good Years by Walter Lord, and Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen. More than a third said that they had read one or more of the invented authors.- The professors despairingly concluded that "if individuals checked fictitious books, it is just...