Word: emerald
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...Mayday twilight O'er the bright skies pearl-coloured clouds float through the emerald space, While on the shore the wavelets Lightly take hands, rise and subside, dance like enamoured naiads. Into such a scene on the last day of May roared the poet in his speed boat. Like a mad modernist, scoffing at his own lyrics, Gabriele d'Annunzio disturbed the waters of Lake Garda (in the Italian lake district), annoyed ladies and gentlemen lolling in boats covered with bright awnings. He detests fat people and, what is more, he was out to add another title-speed...
...many misgivings that I took up "Brother Saul," After reading his other books there was a lurking fear that this one might not quite be up to their standard. Could this writer, the breath of whose nostrils is Ireland, and who in his other works writes, figuratively speaking, with emerald ink--could he so far forget his mountains and heather moors as to be able to transport himself back to the Palestine and Rome of some 2,000 years ago and enter into the spirit of Saul of Tarsus? It seemed barely possible...
From the West comes the news that the student government body of the University of Oregon seeks to control the editorial policy of the Oregon Emerald, the university daily. This move against the freedom of the Emerald is an outgrowth of editorial criticism directed against the A. S. U. O., whose retaliatory attack takes the form of a proposed undergraduate publications board dominated by the associated students' president. The new board of censorship would pass judgment on all editorial policies of the Emerald, and shelter its sponsor from unwelcome criticism...
Resentment of unfavorable comment on the part of the Oregon undergraduate body has led to a parallel situation, Irritated by the hostile criticism it attempts to justify its suppressive tendencies with the phrase "to prevent disagreement". It would deny to the Emerald the opportunity to exercise one of the prime functions of an undergraduate publication that of moulding opinion, granting it only the right of reflecting the popular sentiment of the "student leaders...
...unfortunate that the Emerald should be forced into a campaign to insure for itself the obviously necessary and inherent right of freedom of the press...