Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...educational crusading against crime, made her a "Lady of the Flag." Walking through Manhattan's Central Park, Nursemaid Ruth Volz found "a string of beads," put them on. Few days later her husband noticed that they had an emerald clasp, rightly guessed that they were the $70,000 pearl necklace lost by Leona Jane Ettlinger while walking with her father, Sportsman John Daniel Hertz, founder of Yellow Cab Co. (TIME, Dec. 18). Mrs. Volz returned the pearls, collected $5,000 reward, returned to her job as nursemaid with a Park Avenue family. Exasperated because friends daily distracted Mrs. Volz...
...family who has discovered that semi-starvation is the only penalty for doing nothing; his wife Ada (Margaret Wycherly), mother of 16 of whom 13 have forgotten her; her unmanageable harelipped daughter Ellie May, tortured with the abnormal appetites of the deformed; her golden-haired daughter Pearl who somehow manages to remain a wife in name only; Pearl's normal husband Lov who bought her for $7, loves her vainly, beats her moderately; Jeeter and Ada's remaining son Dude whose pastime is bouncing a ball, whose dream is an automobile horn; a middle-aged prostitute turned evangelist...
...dusty yard crawls with lechery. Lov lusts for his runaway Pearl. Ellie May for Lov, the lady evangelist for young Dude, Jeeter for the evangelist. An external plot arrives in the person of a bank agent come to put Jeeter off the land. For the $100 annual rent required, Jeeter sends Son Dude off in his new car in an unsuccessful attempt to borrow the money from another son. The car runs over Mother Ada. As she dies, Jeeter nabs Pearl with a view to selling her back to her husband for the rent money. Slyly claiming a mother...
Before returning to Tokyo, spry, friendly little Katsuji Debuchi, who has been recalled as Japan's Ambassador to the U. S., presented the Smithsonian Institution in Washington with a two-foot replica of George Washington's home at Mt. Vernon, made of mother-of-pearl and 13,000 pearls. A gift of Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese cultivated pearl tycoon, it had been part of his firm's exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair...
...Gulf of California (then called the Vermilion Sea), Juan fraternized with the pearl fishers, swallowed many a fish story. Besides mermaids, these fishermen were in great dread of the ojon, a large, flat fish with a single eye in its back, which had to be treated with excessive politeness or it would start a tornado. Said one of them: "I have come home from a Gulf trip so weak with suppressed rage at enforced politeness to an ojon, that I nearly died before I could pick a fight with some land dawdler or beat my wife about a trifle...