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...atmosphere at a big airport is always charged with some excitement. Even a little sport plane whizzing in from a pleasure hop makes visitors stand still and watch. At night, the red obstruction lights on outlying buildings and poles, the lower amber lights stretching around the field to mark it for invisible arrivals from the sky, and the beacon revolving like a spotlight groping for the actor, make a big airport such as Floyd Bennett Field into a gigantic theatre where mass drama can take place. There were easily 50,000 people in the audience at Floyd Bennett one night...
...were given to understand that the jade in China came principally from Burma, India and that none was found in China but was sent there because the Chinese are expert carvery and know its worth. It was classified to us as follows: violet-tinted white, some slightly amber tint, white (pure), apple (light) green, darker shades of green, muddy (yellowish) white, etc. A common test is extreme hardness and its coldness to touch regardless of weather...
...AMBER SATYR-Roy Flannagan-Doubleday, Doran...
...Amber sons, Alice Adams won the 1919, 1922 Pulitzer prizes), he winters in Indianapolis, summers at Kennebunkport, Me., in a home well-known as "the house that Penrod built." About 1917 he began to go blind; in August, 1930 he became completely so. Now at last, after eight eye operations. Author Tarkington is able to see again the faces of the American types he knows by heart...
Famed & fashionable in Franklin County, N. Y. was the old Ampersand Hotel, built in 1888, razed by fire in 1907. Today on Lower Saranac Lake stands a new Hotel Ampersand. The name is taken from an Ampersand Mountain, an Ampersand Lake, an Ampersand Brook, probably a corruption of "amber sand" on the lake shore rather than a learned comparison between the brook's crookedness...