Word: pearls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Writing, like the pearl, is a disease...
...rich and firm as a deep-pile carpet. Like Bach starting off to improvise a passacaglia, they lay down the tune-say, Let's Fall in Love-as a kind of groundwork. Desmond's eyes close, his long fingers glide over his alto's mother-of-pearl keys, and he is off on a flight that may take him into Moorish arabesques or old English folk tunes or Confederate Army songs...
Sutherland expressed his admiration for Seavey's successful plan of faculty conferences with famous speakers whom he persuaded to talk on affairs of general interest. He also praised Seavey's farsighted production that the U.S. needed to rearm faster in the months before Pearl Harbor...
...York for deposed President Jacobo Arbenz' wife, who has been in embassy asylum or Mexican exile since June. Because seized letters indicated that the contents had been bought with state funds, the government felt free to open it. Inside, from a Fifth Avenue jewelry firm, were diamond earrings, pearl earrings, a diamond ring and a diamond necklace, ordered early this year by luxury-loving Maruca Arbenz and valued at $25,000. Castillo Armas plans to have them auctioned off "for the public welfare...
...voice was found to be too light, and Marilynn Home's was skillfully dubbed in. LeVern Hutcherson does the singing for Actor Belafonte, and does it handsomely. Belafonte seems a rather Sunday-go-to-meetin' type to attract a Carmen, but he makes the big scenes convincing. Pearl Bailey, through the second half of the film, lolls around superbly under feather boas, dragging her weight in rhinestones and "livin' off de fatheads of de land." And in one scene, using her own inimitable vocal cords, she belts out the Chanson Boheme as they never heard...