Word: emeralds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party for the New York Post, svelte Marion Javits, wife of New York's Republican Senator Jack Javits, wrote that "the First Lady was stunning in a white satin sleeveless dress embossed with brightly colored flowers into which tiny pearls were sewn. She wore long diamond and emerald earrings and a diamond hairclip." Another fashionplate was Harlem's own Representative Adam Clayton Powell, strolling around in "a green Austrian evening jacket with a black velvet collar and, for buttons, Franz Josef coins...
...this year is also loaded with gifts for those who are on the make for the unusual. Neiman's, whose glamour item last year was His and Her airplanes, this year is featuring an ermine bathrobe ($6,975), and Manhattan Jeweler Harry Winston has a nice diamond and emerald necklace for $275,000. An Albuquerque blood bank is selling a $5 gift certificate that is good for all the emergency transfusions a family might need in a year. Abercrombie & Fitch has a beer-can launcher ($24.95) for men who like to combine their shooting with their drinking...
...competed against 49 girls and 23 other boys picked from 5,000,000 entrants. Word that tripped the runner-up: distichous (meaning arranged in two vertical rows, and misspelled distychous). Orthographophile Capehart's winning word, clinching the $1,000 prize: smaragdine (of or pertaining to emerald...
...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...