Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pearl Buck, Nobel Prizewinning novelist L.H.D...
...Pearl Bailey; Coral). Not much of a tune, but Bailey's earthy discussions of the comparative merits of love and conversation are always easy to listen...
Bill got his Navy wings and commission in October 1941, and was shipped to Pearl Harbor. His skipper made him officer of the day for Sunday, Dec. 7, with the remark that "nothing happens here on Sunday." The something that happened that Sunday-the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor-allowed Ensign Bridgeman to distinguish himself in the only possible way that day by not getting wounded...
...newspaper readers, Madame Molotov's attempt to make soap from frog fat was a surefire joke. So was her 1936 visit (as Olga Karpovskaya) to New York and Washington, where she lunched with Eleanor Roosevelt and announced that Soviet men had gone back to using toilet water. The Pearl was soon promoted to the Ministry of Food Industry, Division of Fish. Years later, having thoroughly proved her incompetence, she was fired by a rising young party boss named Georgy Malenkov. "The crux of the matter," Stalin is said to have remarked, "is that too many fish are swimming...
Died. Gano Dunn, 82, international construction tycoon, longtime (since 1913) president of the J. G. White Engineering Corp., whose monuments include Pearl Harbor's naval oil base, the Muscle Shoals steam plant and a string of Latin American power dams; in Manhattan...