Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Massie, having told the story of her ravishment twice in court, did not want to do so again. Prosecutor Kelley heard she was sailing for the mainland with her husband and mother aboard S. S. Malolo. He got a subpena to detain her. Policeman Dewey Mookini went to the Pearl Harbor Naval Base to serve it. She was nowhere to be found. The Press was told she had had a "nervous breakdown...
...Wise Economist Asks a Question." Drama: $1,000 to George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin for Of Thee I Sing, obviously the year's foremost Broadway production, to the Pulitzer Board a "biting and true satire on American politics." Novel, History, Biography, Poetry: respectively to Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, General John Joseph Pershing, Henry Fowles Pringle, George Dillon...
...When Pearl Sydenstricker Buck sent the revised manuscript of The Good Earth to her publishers she explained that it might seem "a little stiff. ... I am quite bilingual in English and Chinese, and the story spun itself in Chinese, and I translated as I wrote." Last week this Chinese novel, long since a bestseller, came to new fame as the winner of a 1931 Pulitzer Prize...
...Pulitzer Awards, totaling $17,000, and consisting of 14 separate prizes, were announced yesterday by Columbia University, which make the choices. "The Good Earth," a novel by Pearl S. Back, received the award as the best novel of the year, but is an exception to the rules of the prizes which require the story to concern itself with American life, since the scene of the prize-winner is set in China. The award in the field of history went to General John Pershing's Memoirs of the Great...
...with his fist before assaulting her. A "hung jury" in that case fired a chain of racial excitement and turmoil not ending with the start of the murder trial last week. For the past three months the murder defendants had been held by the Navy at its Pearl Harbor base. Twice their joint trial was postponed to allow Clarence Darrow time to arrive from Chicago to head their defense. Circuit Judge Albert Moses Cristy had been automatically disqualified from trying the case because he had compelled the Grand Jury to indict for second-degree murder. His place on the bench...