Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Tie and socks meticulously matched, shirt and kerchief lovingly harmonized, Frith-Walter basked in his own well-grooming, beamed upon Miss Office smartly busy over his smart luggage. For she was the ultimate in secretaries; as was Elaine in charming wives, Jack in creditable sons, Pearl in chic, sophisticated daughters-in-law. Business was good, a holiday was in order, the most luxurious of trains snorted impatiently to carry Frith-Walter to the Riviera. He was healthy, he was wealthy, he was witty and wise; all was well with his world. "The earth lies all before...
...distractions: some young moderns noisily ordering drinks; an old "hag-beauty" was noisily bullying her husband; and between them ran the rumor of a typical French railway accident up the line. Alan Frith-Walter's benignity was therefore disturbed-only to be completely upheaved at the sight of Pearl. Why was she on the Rome express, why had he not known of her trip, why was his son not with her? Conjugal difficulties? Scandal in the Frith-Walter family...
...tall, brown-haired, pearl-necklaced and, according to Sunday magazine articles, "superbly formed." In office hours, in sombre office attire, she looks perhaps more resolute than charming, and most of the pearls are hidden beneath her dress. But at social functions in Louisville, in Washington, grimness mellows into dignity, and the pearls, uncovered, hang in a double strand of gleaming white. A friend of hers is Dr. Hubert Work, Republican National Committee chairman. Not a friend of hers is Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Representative-at-Large-Elect of Illinois. She is Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, and she received last week...
...seen today in Palm Beach, in Paris, in Manhattan (on Fifth Avenue). The name is now Black, Starr & Frost. Black, Starr & Frost fashioned the Davis Cup for the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, and for U. S. and European ladies many a rare jewel, notably a $685,000 pink pearl necklace...
Married. Ralph Parizek and Amelia Hipsky; Paul Hipsky and Barbara Parizek; Charles Parizek and Irene Hipsky; all of Willington, Conn., where the Parizeks own a pearl button mill...