Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with sentiment." Says Velez: "I'll bet you say that to every animal." Distressed, Durante uproots a tree, beats his chest, yodels through his nose. The picture also contains a plot in which Durante functions as an outdoor cinema star entertaining a visiting big game hunter (Jack Pearl). Durante hopes to use Pearl's lions in his next picture. Guests at the party (Charles Butterworth, Laurel & Hardy, Polly Moran, Frances Williams, Jack Pearl's neanderthal assistants) break eggs on one another's heads, sing, insult one another, bid for a pair of the explorer...
...Mills Reid, widow of onetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Whitelaw Reid: a net estate of $18,589,916; mostly to her children, Lady Ward and Ogden Mills Reid, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune. The estate included 16 automobiles, a $290,000 77-pearl necklace, a $15,000 Gainsborough, clothes valued at $50, a debt of $6,543 due from King Prajadhipok of Siam...
...trochus. The trochus or top shell is a marine rhipidoglossate mollusk with a multispiral operculum. Its shell is a simple cone and snail-wise it carries it on its back as it moves slowly along in shallow water. The shell is good for buttons, cheaper than pearl shell...
...Scriptures, the Substitutionary Atonement, the Bodily Resurrection of Our Lord and the Historicity of His Miraculous Life are true, unique, not to be tampered with. Never tired of fighting for their beliefs, they were especially incensed last year when the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions failed to repudiate Author Pearl Buck who, as a missionary teacher in China, was decidedly a tamperer. Led by Dr. John Gresham Machen, who five years ago left Princeton Seminary because it was too liberal and helped found Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, the Fundamentalists took their fight to the Presbyterian General Assembly. They were...
...course everything we had has been swept away. To get to Europe and back here I had to sell my last pearl studs. . . . I have wealthy friends here. I used to play polo with Tommy Hitchcock. . . . But I do not want money from them. If they should offer to lend me money I would fling it in their faces...