Word: emeralds
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...What have we worked for if we can't enjoy it? It's getting a little tiresome to always have to apologize for ourselves." Mrs. John E. Swearingen, wife of Standard Oil of Indiana's chairman, said, while commenting to The New York Times on the classic satin gown, emerald and diamond necklace with matching jeweled earrings she wore to that gala...
...awoke, convinced that he had, in fact, climbed the countefort. It was a strong feeling, as strong as the reality of the emerald. Sometimes dreams could be so real that they competed with the world, riding at even balance and calling for a decision. Sometimes, he imagined, when they are so real and important, they easily tip the scale and the world buckles and dreams become real...
...territory west of the Emerald Isle and south of the Canadian commonwealth, users of the dreaded "u" intend the letter to bespeak Old World sophistication and disdain for the intellectual squalor of the former colonies. Colour has the weight of Empire behind it; color is a graceless contraction...
Leaving the city is a jarring, almost violent experience. There are no suburbs. One minute you are driving past huge bank buildings and small noodle stands and city-style corrugated steel-vegetable markets and the next minute you look out the window and there is only the emerald green of rice paddies, a farmer leveling a flooded field with a pole pulled horizontally behind...
...years or more, residents of the town long before Ford built the giant plant in 1966. Ford makes its "midsize" Thunderbird in Lorain--"ugliest cars they've ever built," says the mayor of Lorain as he sits atop the town's city hall, a white stucco and glass Emerald City in the midst of chipping brick and decaying concrete...