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...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...
Painting the Veil, Mr. Maugham Does Not Gild the Lily...
...convincing maps to show the increase of godliness in the United States, and theatrical producers, tobacco magnate and movie corporations simultaneously condemn these maps as empty boasting, one has difficulty in understanding just what conditions actually exist. The "antis" are proceeding along three lines of attack: successes in one gild over similar reverses in others; and in the same way, the "Devil's Disciples" camouflage their Western defeats with their Eastern triumphs...