Oyster stout is a pearl of an idea
San Francisco Chronicle-Sep. 7, 2012
For McDonnell and his partners, the history of Oyster Stout was just as much a ... a year-round oyster stout, available in San Francisco, called Pearl Necklace.
A Plague of Pearl Clutching
Slate Magazine-Jan. 20, 2012
The phrase pearl clutching, which means being shocked by something once-salacious that should now be seen as ... Barbara Bush's jewelry in 1993. Judging ... In 2006, Canada's National Post used it in a story about Brokeback Mountain.
Hollywood Fame Shifts but Jewels Remain Forever
New York Times-May 16, 2012
... careers and marriages: Jewelry, in contrast, is a constant part of movie history. ... and simple pearl and diamond parures offset the excesses of the Jazz Age.
"The Great Pearl Heist": True crime in Edwardian London
Salon-Dec. 2, 2012
The pinching of the pearl necklace -- the property of one Max Mayer, a British ... occurring at a historical moment that Crosby (echoing many other observers, ...