Word: gilding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WASN'T so long ago that women worked principally to earn what was known as "pin money"--enough to gild the cage, never enough to secure the key. While those times have gone the way of the gold standard and Richard Nixon, society persists in regarding the presence of women in the labor force as an act of childish whimsy. We continue to refer to our 50-year-old woman worker as a working girl or sales girl, girl at the front desk or girl Friday. And we continue to think of her earnings as "found money" with which...
...NANETTE (204). Long, long ago, it used to be said that good Americans went to Paris when they died. Nowadays they go to No, No, Nanette. It's a nice place to expire-with nostalgia, laughter and the ultimate in escapist foofaraw. One can only hope that they gild Ruby Keeler's shoes for the Hoofer's Hall of Fame and vote Patsy Kelly the Most Amusingly Insolent Maid of the Century. To Helen Gallagher, and Bobby Van, let's just say, "Thou swell...
...course the problems of a Radcliffe gild confronting these things are far less than those of a working class woman or welfare mother-and yet even for the middle class woman they are traumatic and difficult...