Word: emerald
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...disdaining a regular beat. To a lady who implored him to use a score for a performance of Götterdämmerung, the better to follow the opera's "rhythmical changes," he replied serenely: "There are no rhythmical changes in Götterdämmerung, my dear Emerald. It goes on from half-past 5 till midnight like a damned old cart horse...
...north end of the island, one twelve-room cottage had become the new Winter White House. At the south end, Swedish Heavyweight Ingemar Johansson was training for his return match with Floyd Patterson. And in the democratic spirit of the times, one of the season's first emerald-glittering affairs was last week's opening of a new Schrafft's restaurant in the Royal Poinciana Plaza, an event of sufficient importance to attract Joseph P. Kennedy, William Randolph Hearst Jr., and Billy Graham...
Across the U.S., home-repair clubs retrieved a Pasadena woman's emerald ring that had been inadvertently flushed down the drain, exterminated night-chirping crickets that kept a Long Island insurance agent awake, sent a geologist to a Pacific homesite to estimate the danger of rockslides for a nervous homebuyer...
...emerald green ticket is doughty John Francis Kennedy, 55, a onetime stock clerk and WPA ditch digger whose name did him no harm in winning the maximum three terms as state treasurer (salary: $11,000). Now he wants to be Governor, and has at least a nominally clear field since the withdrawal of a Belmont fisherman named, of course, Kennedy (James M.). A pair of Kennedys are out to succeed incumbent Treasurer John Francis Kennedy: John Michael, 63, a Boston commercial painter, and John Boyle, 59, town manager of Saugus (pop. 20,000), who was an usher at the funeral...
...never hurt anyone. It's short-term credit that breaks people"), Corrigan rode the countrywide real estate boom. He now owns some 100 shopping centers scattered through the U.S., 200 apartment buildings with more than 15,000 rooms, 15 hotels, ten office buildings. Among his properties are the Emerald Beach Hotel in the Bahamas, the 1,660-room Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, the 1,500-room Adolphus Hotel in Dallas and the Bank of Georgia Building now under construction in Atlanta. At 31 stories, it will be the highest in the Southeast...