Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Pearl River, La., Station Agent R. H. Alexander accepted 288 crated rabbits ordered by a Texas oilman to populate a swamp on a 10,000-acre preserve. They were delivered, but next day came 120 more which the addressee refused. Awaiting instructions for their disposal, Station Agent Alexander got 204 more bunnies...
...Thomas Jefferson was also keeper of records. His staff was a part-time clerk. An inventor himself (a mold board for plows, revolving chair, combination stool and walking stick), Jefferson read every application that came in. First patent went to one Samuel Hopkins of Vermont for "making pot and pearl ashes." In those days a patent cost about $4. (Now it is $60 plus legal fees.) John Fitch paid $4.39 for his steamboat patent. The part-time clerk pocketed the fees...
...Breathitt's total assessed valuation dropped from $7,205,920 in 1931-32 to $5,052,607 in 1938-39. County revenue this year is down to $48,790 (of which the Louisville & Nashville Railway will pay a third). There are 200 telephones in the county; County Judge Pearl Campbell has no telephone in his office...
...long, sleek care begin to draw up in front of Brattle Hall. Sometimes a chauffeur opens the door: sometimes an undergraduate whose sloppy reversible contrasts oddly with his white starched shirt front and pearl studs. The girl is in shimmering silk: it is the very latest thing, the very best. For this is the night, you know. The third in the Brattle Hall series for sub-debs...
Leonora Margaret (Princess Gold) pleased her royal father by becoming the second wife of the late 2nd Earl of Inch-cape, P. & O. Co. shipping tycoon, making something like a royal alliance, considering the importance of P. & O. in the Indies. But Elizabeth (Princess Pearl) married Jazz Bandster Harry Roy. At her marriage the Roy Jazz Band played the leader's original composition Sarawaki as a wedding march. Nancy Valerie outraged her father's sensibilities even more by marrying Wrestler Bob Gregory. Still worse, Mr. and Mrs. Gregory promptly journeyed to Hollywood, where the by-now publicity-conscious...