Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...award, second only to the Nobel Prize, is Emile Francqui, banker, one of Europe's dozen richest men. ¶Died. Hugh Cosgro Weir, 49, publisher, author; after a long illness; in Manhattan. A telegram to Carl Laemmle Sr. brought Mr. Weir a job writing scripts for Pearl White. Ruth Roland, et al. With Catherine McNelis he founded an advertising agency in 1928, later published and distributed through 5 & 10? stores the five Tower Magazines (Love, Mystery, Home, New Movie, Tiny Tower). ¶¶Died. Benjamin Wood. 61, fourteenth of 15 children of onetime Mayor of New York Fernando Wood...
...among Brothers & Sons Allan, John, and Clendenin by which Brother Allan was to receive $50,000 yearly for life from each of the other two. Son Allan was cut off in his father's will from an estate valued at $135,164,110, got only a set of pearl studs worth...
...Marklewitz who teaches German ("Priceless literary gems were written in German") earns his living as a high-school physics instructor. Joseph R. Blanco, a Reo foreman, teaches Spanish. A high-school teacher and a radio service man explain the mysteries of Radio ("Understand this marvel of the Age"). Alpha Pearl, who teaches the school's most popular course. Stenography ("A profession to professionals-a great convenience to others") at the Y. M. C. A. building, practices her vocation by day at the Kirby Mercantile Agency. There are courses in Dramatic Interpretation at the Reo Club House, Lip Reading...
From Paradise Cove, scene of many a moonlight picnic on the Marin County shore of San Francisco Bay, six big navy seaplanes taxied out with a mighty roar one noon last week. With their 30 officers & crew they comprised Patrol Squadron 10-F, bound for Honolulu's Pearl Harbor. Except for excited San Franciscans who lined the city's hills to watch the takeoff, there was little commotion over what was to be the longest formation flight ever attempted-2,400 mi. The Navy did not think of it as a remarkable flight but a routine transfer...
...MOTHER - Pearl S. Buck...