Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pair of mother of pearl opera glasses, marked "Lemaire," Paris in black leather case, and one pair of yellow and black metal opera glasses marked "Rain," also in black leather case...
...sighted once beneath the moonlight-flooded clouds. At dawn the Clipper broke through the grey mists overhanging Oahu Island, sped onward in the bright sunlight of a Hawaiian morning, to make a 150-mi. survey of landing areas. Then, within one minute of its schedule, it landed smoothly in Pearl Harbor, having clipped seven hours from the previous record made by six Navy planes in mass flight in January 1934. Nearly eight years before, two Army flyers (Maitland & Hegenberger) had made the first crossing in a landplane in 25 hr. 50 min. The Clipper covered...
...into his carriage, rolled around to Washington's Willard Hotel. There that New York dandy witnessed the wedding of Colorado's U. S. Senator Horace Austin Warner ("Silver Dollar") Tabor and Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt ("Baby") Doe. Diplomats and Congressmen were present. The beauteous young bride wore a pearl necklace for which the groom had that morning paid a fortune; it had, the guests were told, been part of the jewelry pawned by Queen Isabella to finance Christopher Columbus. The air was loud with the popping of champagne corks, heavy with the scent of thousands of flowers-"a massive...
...will be assisted by Stuart D. D. Pearl 3L, L. Albert Emerson 4 SLA, Donald E. Stofflet 3G, Webster F. Williams, Jr. '35, Charles J. Armstrong 2G., James H. Littlepage uL, Oswald Elbert 1G, David G. Proctor '35, and Adolph G. Emhardt...
Instantly Tory Die-hard Winston Churchill leaped up to call the India Bill "dead." Perturbed. His Majesty's Government cabled the Speaker of India's Council of Princes, the pearl-bedecked Maharaja of Patiala, a pressing invitation to speed to London. Though Patiala is neither the biggest nor the richest of Indian States, it is the key State of the Sikh tribes of the Northern Punjabi plains which furnished nearly half of Britain's Indian troops in the War, and the Maharajas of Patiala have been strongly pro-British for 100 years. The present Maharaja is thus...