Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Norfolk, the Fleet's holiday mood changed to one of anxious preparation. Fueling started at emergency speed to fill all the Fleet's tanks and bunkers in three days instead of the normal twelve. Guessing that they might be bound much farther west than California, perhaps to Pearl Harbor or beyond, commissary officers laid in for their crews a six-week supply of fresh milk, fresh vegetables, including tons of spinach. And orders were to unship all old ammunition, take aboard new. Gunners knowingly noticed that the new projectiles for their big guns were colored differently from target...
...Abbe children's travel diaries, Our Family is more charming, thanks to the contributions of tomboy Anor. Anor's family and travel observations, her Rats and Mice at Home, and the tales her Chinese nurse told her are shrewd, imaginative, lively, at least partly support Pearl Buck's statement that "I should not be surprised one day to see an actual genius declare itself in those clear eyes of hers...
...suggestions." Because Miners Lewis and Murray had to attend U. M. W.'s annual contract negotiations, the peace talks were shifted to Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel. While reporters pitched pennies at a line in the corridor (chief winner: A. F. of L.'s Press Agent Phil Pearl) the negotiators in Room 105 wrangled for five hours., consumed $11.90 worth of sandwiches, coffee and milk. The results were inconclusive but the conferences went on. Said William Green in Washington: "... I solemnly declare we will never liquidate the American Federation of Labor for anybody...
...Women like me ... are the safest members of society," declared Novelist Pearl S. (for Sydenstricker) Buck to her fellow alumnae of Randolph-Macon College. But women who do not employ their talents and their education, "they ought to be despised...
...Manhattan Magistrate's Court, year ago, Nurse Pearl White charged that Nurse Essolene Monnier, off & on since 1930, had been calling her obscene and profane names on the telephone. Magistrate Thomas A. Aurekio found Essolene Monnier guilty. Last week the Court of Appeals reversed him, ruled it impossible to commit a breach of the peace by calling anyone anything whatever, by telephone...