Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the appointment has evoked little if any comment in either Japan or the U.S., the selection of Tojo is an ironic one. Mitsubishi's new boss is the son of Hideki Tojo, the Japanese wartime Prime Minister who directed the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and was later tried and executed by an Allied war crimes tribunal...
...signatures are part of the self-characterization. Formidable, hatchet-wielding Carry Nation styled herself "Home Defender." The last survivor of the outlaw Dalton gang scrawled "The Compliments of Emmett Dalton," covering all occasions. General George Patton in pearl-handled regalia penned a cloying confection about his boyhood church...
...Committee said they feared the assembly might be made subservient to CHUL or phased out entirely. Obtaining permanent funding for the impoverished assembly was their highest priority, they said, but they did not expect to get it. When the committee finally voted to suggest a $60,000 budget. Natasha Pearl '82 remembers, "I almost fell out of my chair. I wanted to take it and run, before anybody changed their mind...
...original work on the cathedral stopped in December 1941 because of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. But Architect Ralph Adams Cram left plans for the towers, which Bambridge now consults in a dungeon-like room under the bishop's office. "It's like a giant jigsaw puzzle," he explains, pottering around in a pair of tartan carpet slippers. Bambridge makes large drawings of the more complicated bits-perpendicular tracery, buttresses, gables, turrets and pinnacles. From the blueprints, he designs each stone individually on a numbered job card marked with height, width, length. There is also a scale...
...FLOATING LIGHT BULB by Woody Allen A pearl of a playwright may emerge from the oyster bed of a wretched early home life. O'Neill, Williams and Miller provide eloquently autobiographical testimony to that. Woody Allen's The Floating Light Bulb seems distinctly autobiographical, but it is no more than a shucked oyster shell of a play...