Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stevenson, who has lived long and comfortably on his income from securities, was wrong about the stock market's normal reaction to declarations of war or other bad news. The Dow-Jones industrial average dropped nearly six points the week after Pearl Harbor, 15 points the week after the invasion of South Korea, 32 points on the first market day after President Eisenhower's heart attack...
...Pearl Wanamaker got her political schooling early. Her father was Nils ("Pegleg") Anderson, a Swedish immigrant who lost a leg and made his fortune in . the logging industry, then served in the state legislature. Pearl was through normal school and was teaching by the time she was 18. At 24 she became a county school superintendent, and then, after her marriage to Civil Engineer Lemuel A. Wanamaker, she followed her father into the legislature...
...public instruction. Since then, she has harassed and goaded governors, both Republican and Democratic. She is a Democrat herself, but when one official told her to "get rid of all those reactionary Republican school directors and you'll get all the money you want," she flatly refused. Says Pearl about her campaign methods: "I have been accused of playing politics. I have. But I absolutely will not play partisan politics...
Over the years, Pearl Wanamaker has added 875 buildings to her school system, boosted teachers' minimum salaries from $500 to $2,780. But her biggest achievement has not been a material one. Both in her own state and throughout the U.S., as a past (1946-47) president of the National Education Association, she has been the blunt but effective interpreter of both the problems and the achievements of the U.S. public school. "All my life," says she, "I've believed in fighting for causes. Public education is my cause, and I intend to keep right on fighting...
...Vipers & Pearls. The name "Bergère" has nothing to do with shepherds, but was borrowed from the nearby Rue Bergère; the term "Folies" once denoted a lushly thicketed lovers' trysting ground, later came to mean a public place for open-air entertainment. When the Folies-Bergère first opened its doors on May 1, 1869, it specialized in jugglers, acrobats, clowns, wrestlers, singers, a woman with two heads and a "prodigious magician who swallows live snakes, rips open his stomach, and instead of vipers, pulls out Oriental pearl necklaces which he distributes to the ladies...