Word: gilded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Countless requests that a new likeness he made of Professor Copeland led to a popular subscription. Instant response was made by many friends and graduates; in a short time the required amount had been raised and Mr. Hopkinson engaged as artist. The work is now on exhibition at the Gild of Boston Artists at 162 Newbury Street...
...harlot to live with him, thus ending his long virginity which was to be a jibe in later salons. He became a publisher's clerk, worked ten hours a day. Nauseated with romanticism, he wrote a thousand words daily, part of a projected scheme of novels which would neither gild lilies nor avoid dung. Naturalism was being born. Literature should be scientifically aware of inheritance & environment. He would make his mellifluous name resound on the boulevards, the back alleys...
...affecting to think of the many difficulties the Radcliffe persistence has overcome. Romance must in the future gild the book-laden groups descried hurrying from remote lecture halls. They have been seen and yet have conquered...
...about 1421, at the age of 19, Masaccio, principally noted at the time for his slovenly dressing and deportment, was enrolled in the gild of druggists in Florence and three years later following out a great inclination for the arts of design which he had showed from childhood, he joined the gild of painters...
Hard-boiled Wall Streeters chomped their cigars and said, "Humph! Tryin' to gild his corporation." Friends of Baker Ward hotly denied. They reported a conversation. Baker Ward had been told he would get no backing from Wall Street for a corporation that might not pay common-stock dividends. "I need no Wall Street backing." Friends had deprecated the philanthropic clauses. "You men don't seem to understand that I have so much money I don't want any more. I want to give it away and do it in such a fashion that...