Word: emeralds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gold, ultramarine and many-colored marble. There Giovanni Bellini grew up, amidst a half-Oriental riot of clear colors. Scores of carved and painted ships furled their emblazoned sails at the city's steps. Indoors, Byzantine mosaics shattered the streaming white light into stabs of dandelion yellow, blood, emerald, and midnight blue. Paintings glistened with the burnished metals and translucent glazes evolved by Pisanello and Gentile da Fabriano...
...business across his desk. Newsmen who jampacked his press conference noticed: 1) Harry Truman had switched from summerweight double-breasted to a medium-weight flannel double-breasted suit; 2) his work-to-be-done boxes were stacked high; 3) there was another box on his desk, filled with emerald green match folders. The President indicated the folders, remarked that he was not supposed to be looking. Deskside reporters grabbed the hint and the matches. Across the folders was printed: "I swiped these from Harry S. Truman." Gadgeteer Truman grinned as the souvenirs were passed around. Then he gave out what...
...crocuses-the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey circus-began its longest visit in history (47 days) at Madison Square Garden last week. It should also prove one of its most enjoyable visits. Done up in style, this year's circus has wonderfully gaudy costumes, good-looking girls, emerald-green tanbark, a special and sumptuous Alice in Wonderland pageant. To Deems Taylor music (some of it from his well-known Through the Looking Glass suite) the Jabberwock, the Oysters, the Walrus, a bright-colored set of Chessmen, a decidedly Mad Hatter, a head-slicing Queen of Hearts swagger, slither...
...been a long time. When they first came, there had been that embarrassing scene at the Emerald Beach Club when Nassau high society had formally welcomed the Duke and snubbed his Duchess. The colonials had to be more British than the British...
...publicized parties she gives at others' expense, was judged in Manhattan's City Court to owe a $2,980.74 jewelry bill, ordered to fork over the $996.47 in her checking account to be applied against the judgment. Elsa said that she had helped sell a $30,000 emerald to Cinema Producer Jack Warner, took the $2,980.74 in jewelry instead of a commission. "There are dozens of society women," she said, "who sell jewels on commission...