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Marlene Dietrich was ready for her new picture, Kismet (see cut). Hollywood proudly announced that it took four hours to undress and gild...
...call me Mr. Anthony', you gild my name in fame...
...others, because we feel that our type of liberty will unite all men. The essence of this belief is neither liberty nor equality, but fraternity. To set ourselves apart and above the remainder of the world is to deny this most basic tenet. It is to gild ourselves with a false glow that can only blind us to the bitter problems that have brought the world...
...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...