Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Westminster Cathedral last week went 6,000 people to do honor to Francis, Cardinal Bourne, famed priest. For 25 of his 67 years he has been Archbishop of Westminster. He came to the archbishopric when the cathedral was but a shell, developed it; lived to receive the red hat from Pope Pius X (1911). Last week he celebrated pontifical mass for his silver milestone as archbishop...
...Sawdust Paradise. Than Esther Ralston few are more lovely, than Hobart Bosworth few more noble. Somehow La Ralston failed to be convincing as the circus Hallie whom an evangelist (Bosworth) denounced because she ran a shell game. She was arrested, paroled in the evangelist's care. She gets religion, almost loses her boy friend (Reed Howes), but inevitably wins him over to the cause of righteousness...
...Bullecourt during the Great War an explosive shell ripped out part of his right thigh; a remarkable operation of bone grafting proved effective; after five months he left the hospital. Official dispatches cited him as an officer with "vim ... initiative ... intimate knowledge ... smart demeanor." He was twice awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal of the British Empire, wears the Croix de Guerre with Palms, of France, the Cross of St. George, of Russia. Demobilized in 1919, he was a ranking Colonel and temporary Brigadier General. At this time he came to the U. S. where he was employed as a floorwalker...
...also true of pearls. The U. S. and France sell the artificial ones. Thus people learn the beauty of the real ones and buy-from Mexico, Ceylon, Arabia. Into this double pearl demand Japan has insinuated itself. Work people drop a grain of irritant into an oyster's shell. A kind of hard felon develops in the oyster. It is a cultured pearl...
...effort to agree on limiting production in Mosul, a newly-opened field in which U. S., British, French and Dutch Shell companies have equal rights...