Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stating that "theatergoers who watched fully expected her (Bankhead) to pull a small, pearl-handled revolver from her handbag and . . . shoot both counsel and defendant" and "if it (a judicial system) didn't put her on the stand, it was probably in imminent danger of an attack with a screwdriver, too," TIME'S writer hit a new high in vilification, made the efforts of defense counsel sound like the drooling of the veriest novice...
Presidential Eye. "She stared back at me at first with a cold, unpleasant look." But "after she'd taken in every part of me (including the black pearl and diamond pin I wore)," Evita asked Fleur to stay a while...
...collection of old bones was asking too much. Then Dr. Henry S. Houghton, director of Peking Union Medical College, explained what was in the boxes: the yellowed fossils were more than 500,000 years old, the only known remains of Peking man.* It was a few days before Pearl Harbor in December 1941, and Chinese authorities were anxious to get the bones to the U.S. before they were seized by the Japanese...
...went through the black door into a room with plush, wine-colored carpets and tapestry. Piles of under-wear and nightgowns, black lace, pearl sets, and perfume phials adorned the walls, the mahogany counters, and the shelves. Gentlemen were sitting at marble-topped tables, sipping drinks brought to them by little men in white coats. Salesladies were gliding all around...
This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main...