Word: amber
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...Wine and Amber...
LESS THAN KIN-Charles Caldwell Dobie-The John Day Co ($2). Adrienne was a child of love, conceived in lyric sin. Her mother was Elizabeth Sinclair of the amber eyes, inscrutable, majestic, heiress of a clan which had its roots in the shade of a southern plantation and its later branches in opulent California; her father, the great Kajetan, fiery master of the piano, a sort of Pietro Mascagni of fiction, with huge handfuls of blue-black hair and the hot blood of Italy's vine-clad valleys. Elizabeth Sinclair died soon after Adrienne was born; Kajetan, like...
...foot shark nosed lazily about, off Santa Catalina Island in the Pacific. It was a bright day. In the pellucid blue beneath him the shark could see scores of rakish fish shapes, deep brown, like his own; silver-edged green, mottled grey, golden bellied; big tuna, amber jacks and yellowtails curving dreamily hither and yon, flashing off now and again for a bite of food. A school of his kind wrangled over a dead porpoise, but the big shark had fed. He lolled contentedly...
...thereafter. U. S. chemists have since corrobated the green effect in radiumized diamonds. Dr. Field is first to announce a blue-white effect. Other experiments with radium have turned pink synthetic sapphires red or orange; a white sapphire yellow; blue sapphires gray or brownish green; a colorless topaz to amber's color...
Ushers with tall combs and white mantillas stole back up the aisles as the house lights faded out. The orchestra blared some opening bars, then hushed to a faintly drumming vamp. Into a pool of amber light on the empty stage, stepped a small woman with hair of jet, a stocky little figure in velvet flounces, with a broad, flat face of extraordinary mobility. Her black eyes grew slowly wider and deeper as a spattering storm of applause burst upon her, swelled and rumbled with calls of "Brava! Brava!" which took five minutes to blow over...