Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction. Sir James Barrie, Edna Ferber, Bess Streeter Aldrich, Theodore Roosevelt, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, John Galsworthy, John Donne, Abraham Lincoln, Pearl Buck, Eve Curie and some score of others all contribute their tones of voice. Few of them have much of value to say, and only two of them-Donne and Curie-say it with any nobility; but at least they mesh with their material...
...price from $70 to $724 a share), then lost even his Exchange seat; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. Because he denounced his late, great father for taking a second wife twelve days after the death of his first, Financier Ryan was cut off with a set of pearl studs in the $135,000,000 will of Tobacco Baron Thomas Fortune Ryan...
...corporation has pushed doughnut sales with one of the screwiest publicity campaigns in advertising history. It founded the National Dunking Association, claims for it more than three million members (including Congressman Jennings Randolph, Mrs. Martin Johnson, Martha Graham); holds dunking contests, gets dunking testimonials from unlikely bigwigs like Novelist Pearl Buck. Said she: "If Mayor LaGuardia and Hitler only would get together and dunk a couple of doughnuts, they would see life through the same rose-colored glasses." Standing on his head atop Manhattan's Chanin Building, Flagpole Sitter Shipwreck Kelly ate 13 doughnuts one Friday the 13th...
...case of damage, they are at the mercy of enemy submarines and air raiders. The naval rule of thumb for a safe operating radius for a fleet is 2,500 miles from its base. The only fleet operating base of the U. S. Navy in the Pacific is at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Only sketchy facilities for planes and light craft exist at other U. S.-owned islands. At Manila there are no adequate facilities for overhaul of cruisers and battleships...
Meanwhile, the U. S. Fleet, now based at Pearl Harbor, would have a chance to act. Convoying tankers, tenders, cargo and repair ships, it could head west to the Orient. Once out of Pearl Harbor the Navy would have to rely on its floating shops and tenders, until it got within range of Singapore. This would involve some risks, but they are risks that most Navy men consider worth while, for under such circumstances they count on winning any major engagement in the neighborhood of the Philippines...