Word: gelding
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Whether they call it dinero, Geld or argent, it all means money...
Margaret Gordon Robinson of Lawrence. N. Y. and East House (English): Sherry R. Turkle of Brooklyn, N. Y. and South House (Social Studies): Susan J. Dyshel of Philadelphia and South House (German Languages and Literature): Ruth E. ten Grotenhuis of Doorwerth (Geld). Netherlands and South House (Far Eastern Languages...
Salon from Ford? By far the most powerful-and conspicuous-elite in present-day Germany is, of course, the Geld-aristokratie, the new industrial plutocracy whose yellow Mercedeses and Chris-Craft cruisers have largely replaced the Iron Cross and the dueling scar as status symbols. The new upper crust is personified by such tycoons as Rudolf August Oetker, who parlayed a baking powder business into a 100-company empire; Hans Giinther Sohl, who as boss of Thyssen since war's end has turned a family ironworks into West Germany's biggest steelmaker; and Munich's Rudolf Miinemann...
...Giddy Gelding. This, fall Arlene will star in a new Harry (Reclining Figure) Kurnitz comedy on Broadway called Once More-With Feeling, to be co-produced by her second husband, Actor-Director Martin Gabel. She will still do both her TV shows, look after her interest in a posh Manhattan saloon called Michael's Pub, raise some cows, and try to get Cut Purse, the horse that she owns with TV Critic John Crosby,* out on the tracks ("He's been spoiled for two years. We had to geld him, he was so giddy...
There were also characters like irreligious Mr. Curtis: "What do you do on Sundays while your wife is in church?" the preacher asked him. "Breed mares, geld colts, and build hogpens. I can always find some pleasant way to pass the time." There was mysterious Jerry Billings, Father's gardener, whose trial and ten-year sentence for arson was one of the high points of Country Lawyer...