Yet it is the people from Winnebago and Emporia and the like whom you meet in Egypt, and the Catalina Islands, and at Honolulu, and St. Moritz.
"Fanny Herself"
Edna Ferber
He had already recognised in his poetry what the architectural movement in the great cities in the last few years has realised, that huge shops, as Emporia of intellectual life, as new centres of force, provide tasks for art as stupendous as the cathedrals of old; that in the reek and smoke of teeming cities new tones of colour were waiting for painters, new problems for philosophers; that all that in our own time looms bulky and unseemly will to the next generation be well-proportioned and have to be called beautiful.
"Émile Verhaeren"
Stefan Zweig
In and out of the food Emporia these dart, buying dabs of this and bits of that.
"Gigolo"
Edna Ferber