Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water jump to Honolulu Kingsford-Smith, fumbling in the cockpit during a rainstorm, accidentally knocked down the wing flaps. The plane whipped into a stall, spun down 8.000 ft. into the swirling blackness before he could bring it out. Unnerved but undiscouraged. the aviators swooped into Pearl Harbor to complete in 25 hours the second leg of the world's most hazardous over-water air course...
...Hervey Allen (Anthony Adverse), Pearl Buck (The Good Earth), Frederick Lewis Allen (Only Yesterday), Frederic G. Melcher (The Publishers' Weekly), William Warder Norton (National Association of Book Publishers), and E. S. McCawley (American Booksellers Association) last week went to the White House bearing gifts: 200 books published in the past four years, an addition to the 500 volumes with which the publishers started a White House library four years ago (TIME, April 7, 1930). Mrs. Roosevelt entertained the delegation at luncheon. Later all went to the President's office where the books were laid out on a table...
...mother, Lillian Russell, was not even acquainted with Mr. Brady during the bicycle era. As for the vehicle itself, it had a goldplated handlebar with mother-of-pearl grips, no diamonds. The pedals were also goldplated. The bicycle was a gift from the Columbia Bicycle manufacturers in appreciation of the vast amount of publicity they derived from her using their product and because she had purchased so many of them, one for each member of the family. . . . DOROTHY RUSSELL...
...rushing headlong into it. When Mrs. Meloney pushed a card at Theodore Roosevelt reading "You have one more minute," that speaker swept it aside and talked for three more about "worthwhile work." There was a session on "Changing Standards in the Arts," with contributions from Will Irwin, Hugh Walpole, Pearl Buck, Lawrence Tibbett, Harvey Wiley Corbett, a session on Youth, a session on "The Struggle for Security." But best of all, to many and many a woman in the audience, was a session on "The Changing Status of Women...
...come to be her guests at another oldtime Berkshire Festival. The guests were either established musicians or else socially important neighbors from Lenox, Stockbridge, Lee. For a few old friends the hostess stooped from her height (6 ft. 1 in.), endeavored to hear their greetings through the mother-of-pearl earphone she wore clasped to her head. But the guests had plenty to hear because, with her customary generosity, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge* had provided five rich programs of her own chosen chamber music...