Word: gilds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...critic noted that Dame Laura painted like a man. Said she in London when she heard of it, "What man?" Another called her a "popular painter," which roused her British ire the more: "Don't call me popular. I paint what I see, and I don't gild the truth." The truth through her eyes could be seen in the show's best canvas: a pain-racked image entitled Convalescent Gypsy. She had made no secret of the fact that her model died the day after she finished...
...some citizens; too ignoble, said others. "It will look like an ad for an orange drink." snapped one traditionalist. The builders pressed on with their work, hoping to have it finished this fall. Historians pointed out that the Caliph of Damascus had melted down 100,000 gold dinars to gild the original dome. The new aluminum one will look the same, and at a fraction of the price...
Indiscreet (Grandon; Warner), in the Broadway version (Kind Sir), was the sort of romantic comedy that is all dressed up but obviously has no place to go-but then, Broadway scarcely has the resources that are required to gild this sort of lulu. Instead of $100,000, the movie's Producer-Director Stanley Donen had about $1,500,000 to squander. Instead of painted flats, he had the city of London for his backdrop, and some of the city's stateliest halls for his interiors. Instead of nature's timid hues, he had Technicolor. Instead...
...Gild the farthing if you will, Yet it is a farthing still...
...editorial entitled "Ivy League Stupid to Cut Spring Football," the Daily Princeton said yesterday that "out of season practice aided amateurism," and called the abolition of spring practice "little more than an attempt to gild the Ivy League's amateur lily...