Word: emerald
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...Lucius Beebe, who had condescended to the wartime informality of a black tie, apologized: "I feel as naked as a jay bird." Somebody stole a mink coat while its owner, the wife of a South American diplomat, was not looking. It was said that Lily Pons had lost an emerald. An air-raid warden, in a tuxedo, white arm band and white steel helmet, wandered around the lobby announcing a blackout. "The most individual and interesting performer," averred New York Times Critic Olin Downes, ". . . was the horse...
...evidence. At his Bes-Ben hat shop on Chicago's plush North Michigan Avenue, he has sold hats with everything on them from dish mops to jewels at a minimum price of $37.75, and an alltime high of $1,000 (complete with an emerald and ruby brooch). Last week, suave, dark-eyed Ben wowed the ladies again with a fashion show for Chicago's pet society charity, St. Luke's Hospital. In the solemn spirit of wartime rationing, every Bes-Ben hat was made of kitchen utensils...
...tawny pants and his pants he smoothed downward from the points of his collar, and he wore a luminous baby-pink satin shirt. At the end, he reached gently above his wide platter-shaped round hat, the color of a plum, and one finger touched at the feather, emerald green, blowing in the spring winds...
...fighting men. This heavenly spot is Aitutaki, one of the Cook Islands, northeast of New Zealand and about 700 miles from Tahiti. It is four miles long by one and a half miles wide and has all standard equipment, including a magnificent lagoon, snow white sand, sapphire blue water, emerald green foliage, lush fruit trees, beautiful and amiable women...
...from Buna and one from Gona, and the Flying Fortresses weaving across the top of Buna through sooty puffs of ack-ack fire which are ragged now from repeated bombing. There is nothing else to see but the cloud-spattered tropic sky above the vast bowl of sun-drenched, emerald-green jungle, which is interspersed with patches of yellow, man-high kunai grass. In this incredibly tangled mass of rank vegetation and evil smelling swamps, thousands of men, Americans, Australians and Japanese, are engaged in one of the most merciless and most primeval battles...