Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Pearl Buck, the Chinese are akin to Americans, the Japanese to the English. This theory might explain why the U. S. has never taken the Japanese seriously, likes to regard them as a comic-opera race. It might also partly account for the delicate sympathy of The Wooden Pillow, whose author is an Englishman. But even the most arrant xenophobe could find little to feed his fears on and much to touch his Western conscience in Carl Fallas' gossamer tale. Japanese travel bureaus would be shrewd to boost The Wooden Pillows sales. Cynics may suspect that...
...ornithologist, who took up singing after he resigned from the editorial staff of Doubleday, Doran, met Gladys Swarthout in an opera house at Florence. She was born on Christmas day in 1904, likes to cook kidneys en brochette, plays golf, skis. Her East End Avenue apartment is distinguished by pearl-grey walls, a tea service presented to Mr. Chapman's great-great-grandfather, and the smell of lilacs which Gladys Swarthout likes so much that she had it mixed in the shellac used on her furniture...
...EXILE-Pearl S. Buck-Reynal " Hitchcock...
Five years ago Pearl Sydenstricker Buck convinced U. S. readers that there was good earth in China, and that its tillers were sympathetic human beings not unlike themselves. Her masterly translation of another classic truth {All Men Are Brothers; TIME, Oct. 16, 1933) fell on somewhat deafer ears. Last week she attempted an even more difficult reconciliation: exile and patriotism, missions and motherhood. Author Buck wrote this book about a missionary's wife as if it were a novel, but readers soon guessed she was telling the thinly disguised story of her mother's life. Few readers...
...Pearl, in love with a musician who cannot afford to marry her, draws solace from her piano until that, too, is taken from her. Leo Gordon, father of this unhappy brood, is a dreamy designer of pocketbooks whose partner is revealed in rapid succession as a brutal exploiter of his workers, an incipient firebug, an absconder. Half a dozen other characters in Paradise Lost do not get along well either. Nevertheless, Leo Gordon is able to say in a full-length curtain speech that everything is going to be all right now that they have all hit hard...