Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roguish Girl, Ah, she's a pearl With feet as swift and true- As the legs of any ewe; I'll tell you boys she's here to win, And from now on it looks as if You will be drinking the better grade...
...Premier Leon Blum, a prosperous and infirm old Socialist whose spidery limbs and thin beaked nose give him the air of a flamingo. Flapping gestures complete the illusion and Premier Blum last week was also bird-like in his air of being exquisitely preened and valeted. Spotless were his pearl-grey spats. Faint was his aroma of eau de Cologne. He had just set up one of the very largest Cabinets ever formed in France, a ministry in which so many Radical Socialists and Socialists had found places (along with a self-styled "Dissident Communist") that the Cabinet...
...this fellow! Yet he tell us many interesting things for I hear that Henry Hull and the cast of Tobacco Road may come to the Dunster House costume ball on the 14th; and that Haila Stoddard ("Froggie" as he does call her) may come dressed in her role as "Pearl". This should be a party in the best Dunster tradition...
...speaker lifts the pince-nez from his nose: they snap to their stations on his pearl grey waistcoat. Folding shut the little brown volume, he gathers a few odd papers, picks a soft grey fedora from the top of the desk. Students sit glued to their chairs. Gaily, resolutely, unperturbed the lecturer marches down the aisle and out the door...
...Hearst, succeeded in prodding this country into a wholly unnecessary war. ... It was the first instance of that effective use of newspaper propaganda on a large scale which has become one of the most familiar features of the twentieth century." Mrs. Older: "Hearst was the flaming crusader for the Pearl of the Antilles. He challenged Bourbon tyranny. He determined to drive Spain from this hemisphere. . . . Without Hearst Cuba might still be under the heel of Spain...