Word: gilds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each token, has always expressed the personal view that it wiped away the stain of technical default. Last week it was the painful duty of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, hawk-nosed Neville Chamberlain, to explain to the House of Commons that President Roosevelt was no longer able to gild tokens with their oldtime gloss. The Johnson Bill, barring flotation in the U. S. of securities of a defaulting nation, had caught the President up short (TIME, April 16). Since he was not going to say any more nice things about tokens, why pay any more...
...being built he served three years (1910-13) as Civil Administrator of the Canal Zone. He wrote long homemade odes for every public occasion. Sample: Drift, clouds, drift, far o'er the Western sea; Rift, clouds, rift, in loveliness to me. Blow, winds, blow! Flow, tides, flow! Gild all with glory, Sun, we ask of thee! Canal workers submitted a protest to President Taft which read: "It isn't that we object to real poetry but Governor Thatcher's poetry is objectionable from every point of view. Something should be done by those in authority." Governor Thatcher...
...Sand sued Jacques Boulenger in her defense when he published The Early Loves of George Sand in 1928, but lost when the court ruled that the biographer had not abused his right to criticize. Last week in Paris Aurore Sand claimed to have adduced further evidence of virtue to gild her grandmother's memory...
Sirs: College. please TIME'S discontinue brilliance sending cannot TIME to gild Canisius suppression or blind us to the slurs on things Catholic. R. EICHHORN, S. J. President...
Towering six feet two above the gild French furniture in one of the ornate dressing rooms of the Keith Albee Theatre, "Gentleman Jim" Corbett in a voice that appeared to come from the depths of his anatomy, answered questions about boxing asked of him by his CRIMSON interviewer and at the same time added his personal views about the game that has made him famous...